810 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
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Dr. Ambedkar: Verbal, minor, consequential or incidental—I think those were the words which were used. I was very careful to make the proposition as broad as I possibly could make for the simple reason that the House will remember that we carried the motion approving the orders of the President in great hurry and after great bustle and meetings, further meetings and further meetings.
Notwithstanding that it has been discovered that even we were not in a position to advise the Speaker with regard to the errors that had crept in. Some errors, therefore, had remained and we thought this was the proper occasion to make some provision in order to eliminate the errors that still remained, notwithstanding the scrutiny of the Local Governments, the scrutiny of the Law Ministry and the scrutiny of the Speaker. I do not think my hon. friend Pandit Kunzru will go to the length of saying that simply because we have at one time passed the Orders as issued by the President, we should not take any further occasion to remove any errors that may still be remaining in the Orders.
With regard to the particular constituency to which he referred, he was good enough to suggest that I myself by my own knowledge or information was not in a position to give a correct answer whether a particular constituency was contiguous with the amendment that we are making in this Delimitation Order. We have to depend upon the Local Government on this matter. As he will remember I took particular care to call a meeting of the members of the Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Committee to aid and advise me on the grounds which were alleged for making these changes in the Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Orders, namely correcting errors and making contiguity more possible than it was, but unfortunately he could not come to that meeting. He was the President of the Uttar Pradesh Delimitation Committee and if notwithstanding the advice that has been given to us he still contends that some things have been done which do not produce contiguity, all that I can say is that the fault must lay on his shoulders, for he did not come to the meeting to advise me as to whether what I was doing was correct or not.