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Constituent Assembly Debates Thursday 24th July 1947 Official Report

1947

President Sir sub-clause (2) of Clause 1 says : The election shall be by an electoral college consisting of— (a) the members of both Houses of Parliament of the Federation and (b) the members of the Legislatures of all the Unite or where a Legislature is bicameral the members of the Lower House thereof." All the amendments which were moved to have the election of the President on adult suffr [...] In order to suit the States we have agreed that the members of the States' Legislatures shall be members of the Lower House of the -Union It is a patent fact and it is known to everybody that there is no popular rule in the States and the members of the Legislatures in the States probably will be those who have been nominated by the States or who will not be the real representatives of the peop [...] In that case I would submit that the qualifications of the members of the Upper Houses of the Central and Provincial Legislatures being the same members of the Upper Rouse of a Provincial Legislature may be allowed to participate in the selection of the President of the Republic. [...] If you decide that some sort of weightage should be given to the votes of the members of the Federal Parliament also although the proposal contains no mention of it—the difficulty arises as to what would be the weight of the votes of the members nominated to the Council of State. [...] The clause as it sought to be amended by him will read : "The Head of the Federation shall be the President to be elected by rotation -either by the North of India or South of India." that is to say the members alone of the North in one year and.alone of the South in the next election will take part in the election but I think he means not the members who will take part in the election but the
government politics public policy
Pages
39
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100003
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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Presentation of Credentials and Signing of the Register
831-831 unknown view
Election of Members to Steering Committee
831-831 unknown view
Report on the Union Constitution—Contd
832-866 unknown view
Backmatter
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