constituent assembly of india debates (proceedings)- volume vii

HOMAGE TO THE FATHER OF THE NATION
Mr. President : Honourable Members, before we take up the items on the Order Paper, I bid you to
rise in your places to pay our tribute of homage and reverence to the Father of the Nation who breathed
life into our dead flesh and bones, who lifted us out of darkness of despondency and despair to the light
and sunshine of hope and achievement and who led us from slavery to freedom. May his spirit continue
to guide us. May his life and teaching be the torchlight to take us further on to our goal.
(All the Members stood up in silence.)
-----------------
CONDOLENCE ON THE DEATHS OF QUAID- E-AZAM MOHAMMED ALI JINNAH, SHRI D. P.
KHAITAN AND SHRI D. S. GURUNG
Mr. President : I ask you, Members, to stand in your places to pay our tribute of respect to Quaid-e-
Azam Mohammed Ali Jinnah, who by his grim determination and stead fast devotion was able to carve
out and found Pakistan and whose passing away at this moment is an irreparable loss to all. We send our
heartfelt sympathies to our brethren across the frontier.
(The Members stood up in silence.)
Mr. President: Two Members have died since the Constituent Assembly met in its constitution -
making function. They are Shri Debi Prasad Khaitan and Shri Damber Singh Gurung from Darjeeling.
They represented their constituencies very faithfully and were of considerable help in our deliberations. I
ask you to rise in your places to show our respect to their memory.
(The Members stood up in silence.)
-----------------
AMENDMENTS TO CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY RULES 5-A & 5-B
Mr. President: We shall now proceed to take up the items on the Order Paper. The first item is a
motion by Mr. Govinda Menon and also by Shrimati Durgabai, of which notice has been given. I would
ask Shrimati Durgabai to move it.
Shrimati G. Durgabai (Madras : General): Sir, I beg to move:
That the provisions mentioned in the Constituent Assembly Notification No. CA/43/Ser/48-I, dated the 2nd August 1948, be made part
of the Constituent Assembly Rules, as shown in the amendments below, with effect from the 2nd August, 1948: -
(i) Rules 5-A and 5-B -
For Rules 5-A and 5-B substitute the following Rule: -
"5-A. When a vacancy occurs by reason of death, resignation or otherwise in the office of a member of the Assembly
representing an Indian State or more than one Indian State specified in column 1 of the Annexure to the Schedule to
these rules, the President shall notify the vacancy and make a request in writing to the authority specified in the
corresponding entry in column 3 of that Annexure to proceed to fill the vacancy as soon as may reasonably be practicable
by election or by nomination, as the case may be, in the case of the States specified in Part I of the said Annexure, and