64 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
the position under that part of the Constitution is. But so far as the Constitution is concerned and the relation of Hyderabad State to the Centre is concerned, this, I submit, would be a matter falling within law and order which is absolutely a States subject.
* The Minister of Law (Dr. Ambedkar): Sir, I am grateful to you for the second opportunity which you have given to me to clarify and to explain further the points that were made by me as well as by other Members of this House in the course of the debate that took place yesterday on the adjournment motion. Since you have been good enough to point out to me, before I commenced my remarks, the difficulties which you feel, I will follow the line of points which you have to set out: I will first of all try and explain the Constitutional position of the States on the one hand and the Centre on the other and to what extent the States are free and independent of the Centre, to what extent they are under the subservience or surveillance or superintendence or control of the Centre.
The first thing I would like to draw the attention of the House to is this that there is a certain amount of parallelism in the constitutional frame-up of the Central Government and of the States. For instance, with regard to the Central Government you have article 53 which says that the executive power of the Union shall be vested in the President. Corresponding to that article, you have article 154 which states that the executive power in the States shall be vested in the Governor or the Rajpramukh, as the case may be. Coming to the question of actual administration, article 74 of the Constitution provides that there shall be a Council of Minister to aid and advise the President in the matter of the exercise of the executive authority which is vested in him by the Constitution. Analogous to that article, we have also
- P.D., Vol. 2, Part II, 8th March 1950, pp. 1236-44.