PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 835
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THANKS ON ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT
- Mr. Chairman : All I can say is that there are certain amendments which by no stretch of imagination can be brought under discussion of matters referred to in the President’s Address. There are certain questions like food production, land revenue, foreign policy and preventive detention which are referred to in the President’s Address and the amendments which have a bearing on them may be moved.
Shri H. P. Saksena (Uttar Pradesh) : Have all the amendments that have been presented been admitted or not ?
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar (Bombay) : The procedure followed in the Provisional Parliament was this. Perhaps it is not a new thing. It is going on for the last two or three years since the Constitution has come into operation. As far as I remember— there are many Members of the Lower House; they will correct me—the procedure followed by the Speaker of the House of the People was that he would allow all the amendments to be moved in the beginning. Of course, those were amendments that could be admitted. Subsequently, he called upon the proposer of the different amendments to make speeches in support of their amendments. It was always understood that because a person has moved his amendment, he necessarily will not have any right to speak. But the Speaker, out of consideration for the fact that certain gentlemen had indicated their intention to move an amendment, did allow them a chance of making a speech. That was the procedure that he adopted. I think the same procedure might be adopted here also.
With regard to one other observation, I should like to say with the deepest respect that in making the reference to what
- Parliamentary Debates (Council of States) Vol. I,’ 19th May 1952, pp. 81-83.