PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 817
Mr. Deputy Speaker: At about 6 O’clock.
Dr. Ambedkar: It was first arranged between you and me and the Prime Minister that I should make a statement on the 6th. As certain part of the business was not finished on the 6th it was definitely agreed that you would be pleased to suspend the rule about the transaction of business and allow me to make the statement on the 11th. So this is the time when I should make the statement would be read as an ex-Minister ? I think he was not told that at 6 O’clock the correspondence.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: It is true that I said to the hon. the Law Minister that I will suspend the rule. Normally under rule 128, immediately after the question hour is over any hon. Minister who has resigned can make, with the permission of the Speaker, a statement in explanation of his resignation. Today I have to suspend the rule for that purpose, and I am going to do it. I am only suggesting that it may be put off till 6 O’clock. That is all.
Dr. Ambedkar: Why not now ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker: At 6 O’clock I will hear the hon. Minister.
Dr. Ambedkar: I do not quite understand why my statement should be postponed to 6 O’clock.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Under the rules the Speaker must give his consent before any hon. Minister can make a statement. I would like to know what statement the hon. Minister is going to make. Of course it, involves my consent. I am not disclosing anything to the House which is not provided for, I would request the hon. Minister to give me a copy of the statement and I will allow him to read the statement this afternoon.
Dr. Ambedkar: If that was so, you could have already told me when I saw you that I should hand over my statement to you before you give the permission. You did not do so.