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Constituent Assembly Debates. Official Report Monday 3rd january 1949

1949

Vice-President Sir I beg to move: That to clause (la) of article 67 as now moved the following words be added : 'Provided that the ratio of the total number of representatives of the States for the time being specified in Part III of the First Schedule to their total population shall not exceed the ratio of the total number of representatives of the States for the time being specified in Parts [...] In other words they asked for weightage in both the Houses of the Central legislature and it was Therefore laid down in the Government of India Act 1935 that the represetatives of the States shall be forty per cent of the total representatives in the Council of State whether elected or nominated and that in the Assembly the number of representatives of the States should be one-third of the [...] If honourable Members will turn to clause (5) of article 67 they will find that the proviso to sub-clause (b) of this clause lays down that the ratio of the total number of representatives of the States for the time being specified in Part III of the First Schedule to their total population shall not be in excess of the ratio of the total number of representatives of the States for the time being [...] In fact the House of the People itself will be represetative of the people of the States themselves because the States will be sending in their representatives to the House of the People on almost the same basis. [...] On this ground I suggest that the allocation of seats to the representatives of the States in the Council of States should be on the basis of tsqual representation to each of the component States the number of which representation shall in no ease be more than three.
government politics public policy
Pages
39
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-i unknown view
Draft Constitution
1195-1232 unknown view