The Legislative Assembly Debates (Official Report) (20th November to 9th December) Sixth Session of the Fourth Legislative Assembly 1933

Once he has convened it he has exhausted his powers and has only one power left and that is he can prorogue the Session; and the pc wer to change the venue that is the place of the meeting from one place to another is neither within the jurisdiction of the GoVernor General nor of the Presdent. In _this ease the only thing.is that if the place of the meeting. [...] As a President he realised that the interpretation of the rules and standing orders gave an immense scope to the President for the development and protection of the constitutional rights of the citizen and he never wavered in what he thought to be his duty to his country. [...] Patel Sir raised the status of the Assembly and status of the Chair in the estimation of the public. [...] 190 in Delhi under the shadow of the death of a President of the Assembly and the.first day of the Session would he dedicated and devoted to paying tributes to his memory. [...] No doubt like you Sir he subsequently enjoyed the triumph of unopposed election to the Chair when a newly elected House gave its verdict on his first term of office and vindicated his choice and the fitness of Indians to fill positions of the highest responsibility which as remarked by the Honourable the Leader of the House was his main object in seeking election to the Chair.