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792 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES (10) That in the Table, under the heading “Local Authorities’ Constituencies”, against the entry “Poona City (Local Authorities)” in column 1, for the entry “Municipal Corporation of Poona City” occurring in column 2, the following be substituted, namely:— “Area under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Corpration of Poona.” (11) That in the Table, under the heading “Local Authorities’ Constituencies”, against the entry “Poona (Local Authorities)”, in column 1, for the entry “Poona District excluding Poona City Municipal Corporation” occurring in column 2, the following be substituted, namely:— “Poona District (excluding the area under the jurisdiction of the Municipal Corporation of Poona.” COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES (MADRAS) ORDER Dr. Ambedkar: I beg to move : That the following modifications be made in the Delimitation of Council Constituencies (Madras) Order, 1951, laid on the Table on the 20th September 1951, namely:— (1) That at page 1, in the Table, under the heading “Graduates’ Constituencies” against the entry “Madras South (Graduates)” in column 1, for the words “Madras City, and the Chingleput” occurring in column 2, the words “Madras, Chingleput” be substituted. (2) That at page 2, in the Table, under the heading “Teachers’ Constituencies” against the entry “Madras South (Teachers)” in column 1, for the words “Madras City” and the Chingleput” occurring in column 2, the words “Madras, Chingleput” be substituted. COUNCIL CONSTITUENCIES (MYSORE) ORDER Dr. Ambedkar: I beg to move: That the following modification be made in the Delimitation of Council Constituencies (Mysore) Order, 1951, laid on the Table on the 20th September 1951, namely:— That in the Table, the word “Revenue” wherever it occurs, be omitted. PARLIAMENTARY AND ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES (MADRAS) (AMENDMENT) ORDER Dr. Ambedkar: I beg to move : (1) That the following modification be made in the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies (Madras) (Amendment) Order 1951 laid on the Table on the 20th September 1951, namely:— ‘That at page 17, in Item (69)—“Villages comprising the firka of Vaniyambadi in Tirupattur Taluk”—for the words “and Chinnakallupalli” occurring at the end, the words “Chinnakallupalli and Devasthanam” be substituted.’

793PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES (2) That the following modifications be made in the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies (Madras) (Amendment) Order, 1951 laid on the Table on the 20th September 1951, namely :— 1. That at page 1, in para 2 (b), in the proposed Explanation, for the words “area comprising the villages” the word “areas” be substituted. 2. That at page 2, for para 5 of the said Order the following be substituted, namely :— “5. in item (23) of the Appendix to the said Order, for the words “Sevalur part, Pothuravuthampatti, Manapparai” the words “Manapparai panchayat” shall be substituted. 3. That in para 6,— (i) in item (2) of the Schedule, for the words “Pitali, Sirimamidi and Gollagandi” the words “Pitali and Sirimamidi” be substitued; (ii) in item (14) of the Schedule, after the words “Venkampeta near Ramavaram” the word “Ramavaram.” be inserted; (iii) in item (21) of the Schedule, after the word “Derasan,” the word “Pydibhimavaram” be inserted ; (iv) in item (63) of the Schedule, after the words “Koppedu Kapula, Kandriga,” the word “Agaram,” be inserted; (v) in item (80) of the Schedule, for the word “Kallupatti” where it occurs for the second time, the word “Sethupatti” be substituted ; (vi) in item (87) of the Schedule, for the word “Aruppukkottai” the words “Aruppukkottai Municipality” be substituted ; (vii) in item (93) of the Schedule, for the words and brackets “Devakottai Rural (Eravaseri)” the words and brackets “Devakottai Municipality, Eravaseri (Rural)” be substituted; and (viii) in item (95) of the Schedule, for the words and brackets “Keppapatnam (Manamathurai Panchayat Board)” the words “Kepparpatnam, Manamadurai Panchayat” be substituted. PARLIAMENTARY AND ASSEMBLY CONSTITUENCIES (UTTAR PRADESXH) (AMENDMENT) ORDER Dr. Ambedkar: I beg to move: That the following modifications be made in the Delimitation of Parliamentary and Assembly Constituencies (Uttar Pradesh) (Amendment) Order, 1951 laid on the Table on the 20th September 1951, namely:— (1) That at page 1, in para. 2 (ii), after the words “but including Mohammadi,” the words “Atwa Piparia,” be inserted.

794 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES (2) That at page 1, in para. 2 (iii), after the bracket and words “excluding Mohammadi,” the words “Atwa Piparia,” be inserted. (3) That at page 2, in para, 3 (i), in the Table for the entry “Pauri (North) cum Chamoli (East)” in column 1, the following entry be substituted, namely:— “Pauri (South)- cum-Chamoli (East)” (4) That at page 2, after para. 3 (iii), the following new sub-para. be inserted, namely :— “(iiia) for the entries “ Mohammadi (West) and Mohammadi (East)” in column 1, and for the entries against them in column 2, the following entries be substituted, namely:— 12 Mohammadi (West) ... Moh ammadi, Atwa Piparia, Magadpur and Pasgawan Parganas of Mohammadi tahsil. Mohammadi (East) ... Moham madi tahsil (excluding Mohammadi, Atwa Piparia, Magadpur and Pasgawan Parganas).” *Mr. Deputy Speaker : I shall take up Bihar first. Have they come to any arrangement ? BIHAR ORDER Dr. Ambedkar (Bombay): I had a meeting with several Members who have tabled amendment motions to my main motion with regard to the Constituencies Orders issued by the President. The arrangement arrived at is this. Out of list 4, I accept amendment No. 6, parts 1 and 2 (amendment moved by Shaikh Mohiuddin and Mr. Kshudiram Mahata). Mr. Deputy Speaker: I understand there are only two parts. The Hon. Minister is accepting both the parts ? Dr. Ambedkar: Anyhow, I would like to particularise the parts ; I accept parts 1 and 2. Mr. Deputy Speaker: That is all with respect to Bihar ? Dr. Ambedkar: Yes. * P. D., Vol. 16, Part II, 11th October 1951, pp. 4617-20.

795PARLIAMENTARY DEBATES Mr. Deputy Speaker: I shall put it to the House. Any other hon. Members wanting to speak ? Shri Syamnandan Sahaya (Bihar): Before we accept the Bihar order, will the Hon. Minister kindly state what are the actual changes that he is accepting? Mr. Deputy Speaker: There are no changes made. The amendment as a whole is accepted. I shall read it. Shri Syamnandan Sahaya: Because there stand in the name of Mr. Kshudiram Mahata several amendments. Therefore we would like to know exactly. Dr. Ambedkar: After accepting certain amendments moved by the hon. Members, I thought that there might be some point of order that might be raised against them in view of the fact that in certain cases there were amendments to propositions which did not exist at all. Therefore, I thought it much better to take upon myself the responsibility of moving these amendments so that there may be no point of order arising. Shri Syamnandan Sahaya: I am not raising any point of order. I only wished to understand the particular amendment of Mr. Mahata which was being accepted. If you will kindly read out or if the Hon. Minister will explain, we will know what exactly the position is. Dr. Ambedkar: The position is this. Mr. Deputy Speaker: May I suggest one thing ? I shall allow the Hon. Law Minister to move the amendment which he accepts. Thereafter, I shall consider the other amendments. If they are barred, they will be barred. If any other hon. Member wants to move any amendments which are not barred, the House will consider them. The amendments have already been moved. If they want to speak, they may speak. Dr. Ambedkar: The amendments moved by Sheikh Mohiuddin and Shri Kshudiram Mahata deal with the spliting up of the Graduates Constituency for the Council of

796 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES States. Originally, in the Order issued by the President, the grouping was done in a different manner. The Members of the Committee which I had invited mentioned that the Order proposed by Sheikh Mohiuddin and Mr. Mahata should be adopted; in other words, there should be a separate division for Patna, a separate division for Tirhut, and separate division for Bhagalpur and a separate division for Chota Nagpur. On the whole I thought that there was some substance in the arguments presented by these two Members who had taken upon themselves the responsibility to move these amendments. The same has been done with regard to the Teachers Constituencies for the Council of States. In other words, Bihar has been divided into four divisions. Patna, Tirhut, Bhagalpur and Chota Nagpur. So far as I could understand the sense of the Bihar Members who were present at that meeting the sense was unanimous in favour of the arrangement proposed by this amendment. Mr. Deputy Speaker: He has only done this. Instead of the entire state being a single constituency for Graduate in Bihar, it has now been divided into four constituencies, under this amendment. Dr. Ambedkar: Both for Graduates and Teachers. Deputy Speaker: In the Order of the President, Graduates alone is noted. Dr. Ambedkar: If you will kindly refer to list 4, Bihar, you will see...... Mr. Deputy Speaker: I am putting the Teachers Constituency later. Hon. Members will refer to the Delimitation of Council of States Constituencies Order. In the Table. Bihar, Graduates is the earliest entry. The following is the amendment. In the place of the ‘Entire State’ as the Graduates Constituency in the second column, the hon. Member has given notice of his amendment that the entire State may be divided into four subdivisions for the purpose of elections. I shall put that to the House and then I shall come to Teachers later.