80 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
short one viz., six weeks from the re-assembly of Parliament. In this particular case Parliament assembled on the 28th January so that the Ordinance would expire on the 12th of this month. It is necessary that this Bill should be got through before the Ordinance ceases to have legal operation. The Bill seeks to include what I may say, clause (a) of Section 2 of the Ordinance, which referred to Deputy Ministers and Ministers of State. The present Bill does not propose to give effect to clause (b) of section 2 of the original Ordinance which made provision for part-time offices. Instead of that, the Bill seeks to include two more offices viz., Parliamentary Secretaries and Parliamentary Under-Secretaries. It is felt that although these offices are not in existence now and have not been created, it is quite possible that the Government of India may find it necessary to create them. It was therefore felt that it would be better to enlarge the scope of the Bill in order to include these offices as well. I do not think that any more argument is necessary to support the Bill and I hope the House will accept it.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: Motion moved.
- Dr. Ambedkar: I would like to understand, whether my hon. Friend agrees to the proposal in the Bill that these two offices should be created and being created, they should be exempted from the provision enacted in article 102 of the Constitution ? Let us understand it very clearly and if my hon. friend is going to take the whole of the half hour, there is no use going any further.
Shri Tyagi: If he is tired, he might go home.
Mr. Deputy Speaker: I agree any length of time can be taken but so far as this Bill is concerned, it is a very small point.
** Dr. Ambedkar: I only wanted to understand what exactly was the point my hon. friend was driving at and if he was going to take the whole of the half hour, it is much better to begin tomorrow and finish the Bill.
- P. D., Vol. 2, Part II, 9th March 1950, p. 1334.
**Ibid., p. 1334.