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matter to be raised on the floor of the House. But I would like to tell my hon. friend that so far as my information and knowledge go there is in this amendment not the slightest evidence of any kind of gerrymandering. The amendments which I have sought to make consist only of two things. One is to rectify errors which have crept in by some kind of inadvertence. Some thana which ought to have been mentioned has not been mentioned in the appropriate place and some other thana or some other place has been mentioned in its place. The second thing is that it has been discovered that in some of these cases where contiguity was possible, somehow by some mistake the principle of contiguity has been lost by the inadvertent mixture of some thanas from one constituency to another and an attempt is made in this amendment to remove these two errors, i.e. mistakes of a topographical kind and secondly mistakes which brought about a certain amount of discontiguity.
Pandit Kunzru: May I ask my hon. friend whether he is saying this with reference to his own amendment or with regard to the amendments in the President’s Order ? If he is saying this with reference to the president’s Order, then I should like him to turn to the changes proposed in the Garhwal constituency and tell me where the question of restoring contiguity exists. There is contiguity between the various parts of the constituency suggested. I know it is very difficult for him to deal with this local matter, but I mention it only in order to point out to him that the changes suggested are not due entirely to the reasons mentioned by him.
Dr. Ambedkar: May I continue, Sir ?
You will remember that last time when the President’s Order with regard to delimitation was passed by this house, out of caution I moved a motion that the Speaker of the house should be given power to make such changes as it may be found necessary in order to remove certain errors.
Shri Kamath: Verbal errors, verbal amendments.