PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES 979
personalities. According to the strict rule, it says, token adjournment may be made. I submit that, without doing any violence to this rule or to the spirit underlying this rule, the present case deserves for some reasons which I have mentioned and others which I have not mentioned that the House do adjourn for the day. That is subject to your wishes and the wishes of the House.
Shrimati Renu Chakravartty: Sir, I join the Leader of the House in requesting you to convey to the members of the family of Dr. Ambedkar the condolences of our party and our colleagues.
We, younger Members, never had the privilege of working with him. We had also our difference. But, to-day, we all of us cannot forget how he brought to the forefront of our people’s conscience the disabilities suffered by a section of our people owing to our oppressive social system. Personally I feel that, although we have passed the Hindu Code Bill in parts, the principles which Dr. Ambedkar had embodied in his original draft were wiser in many aspects. We also pay our tribute to his outstanding intellect which rose against social inequality and narrow prejudices, and he became one of those who were known as the architects of our Constitution, and I am sure the country will remember him embodied in that constitution. I also join with the leader of the House in requesting you to adjourn this House as a mark of respect to his memory.
Shri Asoka Mehta (Bhandara): I wish to associate myself with the tribute that has been paid to Dr. Ambedkar.
I was privileged to be associated with him on more than one occasion and in his remarkable and fascinating career, there were many facets. We who come from Bombay remember him as a teacher, we remember him as an economist, we remember him as a labour leader, we remember him as political leader. Apart from the great work that he did in this House and as a Member of the Government, as far as my part of the country is concerned, he brought a new awakening. It was because of him the large sections of people on our side were given a sense of social significance, they were given a