PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 951
Constitution where the procedure for acquiring property is so easy as it is in our Constitution. Can anyone point out to me that there is some other Constitution which enables the Government with greater facility to acquire property for public purposes ? Now, with all this facility, is there any necessity for the Government to come out with a proposition that there are cases where they shall not give compensation ?They need not cast the whole burden, the entire burden, on the present generation. They are not asked to say that the bonds that they might issue must be redeemable. They may make them irredeemable. All that they need do is to give some interest on the bond as every borrower agrees to do and as every creditor gets. Why at all even the most hasty socialist should say, “well, we shall not pay compensation;”, I do not understand. There are in my judgement three cases or three paths that one might follow. The first path would be full compensation; the second, no compensation; and the third, compensation as determined by law. I am quite in agreement with those who think that it is not possible to accept full compensation in terms of the Land Acquisition Act. I am quite in agreement with that; if by full compensation is meant compensation as determined by the rules now prescribed by the Land Acquisition Act, I am quite prepared to side with the Government and say that that is an impossible proposition which we need not accept. I might at this stage draw the attention of the House to the fact that we are not the only people who are bringing about socialism. What socialism means, nobody is able to say. That is the socialism of the Prime Minister, which he himself said that he cannot define. There is the socialism of the Praja Socialist Party; they don’t know what it is. And even the Communists……
Shri S. N. Dwivedy (Orissa) : You don’t know either.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: I am not a socialist.
Shri S. N. Dwivedy: You want to criticise without knowing what it is.
Mr. Chairman: Order, order, you may go on.