On 9th November 1948 at the Constituent Assembly Shri Raj Bahadur [United States of Matsya] spoke as follows;
“Sir, some of the members of this House referred to the provision of proportionate representation and separate electorate. I mean to say, Sir, if we want to protect our freedom we shall have to provide in our Constitution that just as we have said that there shall be no evil of untouchability in our body politic and so also we shall have to see that these tendencies these idiosyncrasies which have been responsible for the vivisection of our motherland shall not raise their ugly heads again. If I say this it is because even today when we are finding that effect of partition are still troubling our body politic, when we are not yet free from the evils of partition, there are people and forces in the country which are still trying to revive and perpetuate communal politics. It is absolutely necessary for us to see when we frame our Constitution that these evil forces do not imperil our freedom.”
“I may also say there is another peril from which our country may suffer and that is feudalism that is still rampant in some of the states of Rajaputana. Owing to the sagacity our State Minister the problem of the State had been squarely dealt with but may I still submit that the people in the various states of Rajaputana are still under the thumb of these feudal landlords. The Jagirdari system is still there and the poor kisans are whom we have been clamoring for freedom are still not breathing the air of freedom. The reactionary tendencies of these Jagirdars are still there and so I hope that just as the problem of states has been squarely dealt with, the problem of these feudal landlords will also be dealt with squarely and solved.”
Comment: Feudalism is still rampant in remote villages in different nomenclature.