924 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
not different in any sense from an ordinary law ? Is it merely a scrap of paper to be amended at the whim of anybody ? There is a saying in Marathi—I do not know whether I can translate it into English properly—and that saying is a very good one and very appropriate. We say, if the old woman dies it really does not matter very much but what we are afraid of is that Yama gets habituated to coming often and often and what we want to prevent is the Yama’s invasion. It does not matter if the old woman is dead or snatched away. This is exactly what has been happening and I have been noticing the great contempt or the low regard or respect which the Government has for the Constitution. You may amend the Constitution; nobody has any objection to amending it but certainly you ought to treat the Constitution on a somewhat different footing, a better footing, a special footing. Tell the people what you are intending to do and then you may do it. Otherwise it might become necessary even to amend Article
368 in a manner so as to prevent this facile invasion of the constitutional provisions. This is all that I wanted to say.