Constituent Assembly Debates. Official Report Monday 13th June 1949

(3) In addition to the powers conferred by the previous sub-section the Union Parliment may make laws for the peace or order and good government of the Union or any part thereof in relation to all matters nqt falling within the dune of subjects enumerated in List I and in particular and without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing the Union Parliament shall have the exclusive to make [...] (6) Where a law of a State is inconsistent with a law of the Union Parliament or to any existing law with respect to any of the matters enumerated in List I or (List II) the law of the Parliament or as the case may be the existing law shall prevail and the law of the State shall to the extent of repugnancy be It The amendment was adopted. [...] I do feel that it might conceivably be the thin end of the wedge of the encourage ment of the Centre attracting to itself greater powers from the provinces so that in this prccess of integration of powers at the Centre for the purpose of uniformity of action in avowedly important matters the general idea that the Centre must have larger powers would come to be accepted. [...] I feel that the duty of determining which subject has assumed the propotion of national importance should be left to the leaders at the Centre and not in the hands of the members of the Council of States. [...] Therefore to leave it to the represetatives of the Provincial Legislatures sitting in the Council of States to move such a resolution is really nullifying the good that can accrue to the Centre if the power to move such a resolution is vested in the House of the people.