constituent assembly of india debates (proceedings)- volume vii

the House. Thank you, Sir.
Mr. President: Mr. Sidhwa.
Shri R. K. Sidhwa (C. P. & Berar: General): Mr. President, Sir, my amendment was -
"That in sub- para. (1) of the proposed paragraph 4 of the Schedule, delete the words `Not less than fifty per cent'
of and for the words `the total representatives' the words `The total number of representatives' be substituted."
The object of my amendment was that while we have done away with the nomination system in our
Constitution, it would not be fair to allow the States, particularly the Rulers to nominate the 50 per cent.
I therefore, with that object in view and just in conformity with our decision for abolishing the
nominations, suggested the abolishment of this also. I however understand that an arrangement has
been arrived at between the Rulers and the people of the State and the States people have agreed to
this arrangement being continued and I am also told that although this is there, the representatives are
all elected by the people themselves. If that is so as I understand it is so, I do not propose to move this
amendment.
Mr. President: Do you move the amendment or not?
Shri R. K. Sidhwa: I do not move it, Sir.
Mr. President : All the amendments of which I have notice, so far as this motion is concerned, have
been moved. I have received a complaint from one Member that the agenda and amendments have been
circulated here and he did not get them before and so he has not been able to give notice of
amendments and he wants that the discussion be adjourned. I understand from the Secretariat that the
agenda and other papers were circulated some days ago but they were sent to the addresses that were
then known to the office and it is possible that the Members during the course of transit have not been
able to get the papers that were sent to them and by way of caution a second copy has been supplied
here today. It is not as if the agenda and the papers have not been circulated. Only the second copies
have been given today. I do not think there is any ground for adjourning the discussion of this motion
particularly because after all it is more or less a motion of a formal nature, because we have already
acted upon these Rules and they are not likely to be acted upon in the future when this session of the
Assembly is over.
Shri Mohanlal Gautam (United Provinces: General): *[ I have no objection in complying with your
order. But I submit that the information supplied to you by the office is incorrect. Many of the Members
have not received copies of the agenda. Not I alone but two or three of my colleagues also who are
present here have not received it. I am in greater difficulty as my telephone has also been disconnected
even though they had already taken from me the subscription for the whole year. Twice I have referred
this matter to the Deputy Minister for Communications but telephone connection has not yet been
restored. When I came here I telephoned from another place to the Deputy Secretary, Constituent
Assembly, and informed him that no copy of the agenda had been received by me and that the telephone
connection also had not been restored. This is the situation of the Members and I would like to make my
protest against it. Had it been so with me alone, you could have adopted this course. But there are many
Members present here who have not received the agenda. The Deputy Minister Shri Khurshed Lal is also
one of them. He also denies having received a copy of the agenda. I don’t know how it was circulated but
even he complains of not having received it. Twice I complained to him that my telephone connection
had not been restored even though the subscription money had been realised by them for the whole
year. You have reduced us Members to this miserable plight. As for the agenda, I am not the only
Member to complain about it. Many Members have not received it. There are important items on the