Parliamentary Debates Parliament of India Saturday 26th May 1951 Part II - Proceedings other than Questions and Answers Official Report

If you look into the records of the pre- vious years when the popular Ministry was functioning, or when the Rulers were running the administration, you will find that crimes were not on the increase and that the dacoits were not so active in those days as they have become now during the administration of the Chief Commissioner. [...] The Chief Minister should preside over the meetings of the Council of Ministers and the Chief Commissioner or the Lieutenant Gov- ernor as the case may be can be the9400 Government of 26 MAY 1951 Part C States Bill 040i [Shri Dwivedi] ,-ad of the Government. [...] It has been mentioned that the Chief Conn olssioner said that the Members of Parliament are the cause of the dehly and 'they are ca)structing the sehem. e. [...] 'But those remarks apart, the present Bill, in making a discrimina- tion as it does, and any limiting the power or ministerial responsibility, the scope for the doctrine of responsibility to the representatives of the people. [...] Certainly do not make the Chief Commissioner, if you wish him to be the head of the Government in the same manner as Governors and Ralpramukhs are in other parts of the Union.