Proceedings of the Legislative Council of the United Provinces Tuesday 25th April 1939 Official Report

* 3 to 5. Babu Badri Prasad Kakkar (3): Is it a fabt that there were instructions from the Government that in the selections of the supervisors kamdara and mate under the new scheme preference would be given to the candidates from the tenant class ? (4) Would the Government be pleased to give the number of the candidates appointed in each district from the tenant class in the posts mentioned abov [...] To put it shortly I wish to disease the predisposing causes which led to yesterday's disturbances and the inadequacy of the machinery of the Government to maintain law and order in the precincts of the legislative building. [...] The Hon'ble the President: In other words the honourable member wants to discuss the general policy behind this disturbance; Eyed Agha Haider: As a is of my argument and leading up to it but if the Hon'ble President is pleased to rule. otherwise I shall be careful to eliminate the part dealing with the failure of the machinery of the Government in maintaining law and order. [...] I ask : Is it not the duty of the middle classes who benefit so largely from the provincial funds to contribute something in return for the benefits which they get ? Is it oppressive to ask them to contribute something towards the betterment of the conditions of the poorer people Khan Bahadur Sheikh Masood us-saman : Do the middle classes not pay income-tax ? The Hon'ble the Minister of Justice : [...] The first is the question of validity secondly the question of incidence of the tax itself and thirdly the several amendments that have been put forward to the Bill which as the Hon'ble Minister has rightly conceived go to ; the very root of the matter.