818 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
Mr. Deputy Speaker: There is no harm.
Dr. Ambedkar: I came and subsequently wrote a letter but so far as I am concerned you did not say that I should furnish you with a copy of my statement before you come to the conclusion that you would permit me to make a statement and so far as I read rule 128, I do not see. that there is any provision therein which requires that a statement should be submitted to the Speaker before he gives consent. The Prime Minister had asked me for a copy of my statement and I have given him a copy of my statement. If you had also given me an order that I should submit a copy of my statement to you before you come to the conclusion Whether I should make it or not, I should have been very glad to do so but you gave me no such indication when I came to you. I felt the difficulty was that under the rules the statement should be made immediately after the question hour and the Prime Minister was very keen that I should finish certain business which it may not be possible for other; Members to undertake because it involves certain difficult matters. I agreed to this and then I came to you and said, “Will you kindly suspend the rules so that I may help the Prime Minister in getting the business through” ? You never said that you wanted to see a copy of my statement before’ you permitted me and I see that now you have raised this point for the first time.
Pandit Kunzru: May I know whether the Chair can claim some sort of censorship as stated by you ?
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Yes, The kind of censorship which the Chair can always exercise is to avoid the matter which ought not to be placed before the House, Which is libellous, slanderous, irrelevant and so on and so forth, ( Interruption ) . Order, order, I am only answering the question which was put. I can certainly do so. I am not going to allow observations of an irrelevant nature and improper statements. I will confine myself strictly to rule 128 and if an Hon. Minister goes on making a statement on the floor of the House, I am entitled to call him to order, if I find that the statement