On 18th May 1949, at the Constituent Assembly, Ms. Srimathi G. Durgabai moved an Amendment regarding the qualification to be elected to Legislature, and spoke as follows; Sir, I beg to move that in the new Article 68A [qualifications proposed for insertion of Article 68 in Clause B for the word [thirty five] be substituted […]
On 20th May 1949, Professor KT Shah, Bihar General moved the Amendment in the Constituent Assembly and spoke as follows; “Either House of Parliament shall be to receive Petition or representation from the People of India or from People of any unit forming part of the Union of India.” Sir I consider this a very[…..]
On 20th May 1949, at the Constituent Assembly, Mr. Nazeeruddin Ahmed [West Bengal Muslim] spoke as follows; While dealing with payments or salaries; “It is rather a statutory recognised recognition of an Opposition. It is rather giving the Opposition recognised place in the Constitution”—- “Opposition in Democratic House is a great necessity, it is an[…..]
On 27th May 1949, an interesting exchange of words took place at the Constituent Assembly and they are narrated as follows; Shri H. V. Kamath; Mr. President, Sir, I move That in Article 117 for the words “all courts, the words, “all other courts be substituted.” So, if this is accepted the Article will read[…..]
On 28th December 1948 Mr. Kazi Syed Kareemudeen [CP Berar Muslim] spoke at the Constituent Assembly as follows; Mr. VP, I move, That the following new sub clause be inserted after sub clause B of Clause 2 of Article 50. [C] The meeting shall be Presided by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court whose[…..]
On 17th November 1948 Mr. Nazeeruddin Ahmed [Bengal General] spoke at the Constituent Assembly as follows; I read out the Clause – unless the context otherwise requires General Clauses Act, 1897, shall apply for interpretation of the Constitution. The Government of India Act was controlled in this respect by the UK Interpretation Act, 1889, and[…..]
In Section 35 of The Advocates Act, 1961 providing for punishment of advocate for misconduct Section 35: (1) Where on receipt of a complaint or otherwise a State Bar Council has reason to believe that any advocate on its roll has been guilty of professional or other misconduct, it shall refer the case for disposal[…..]
Section 47 in Chapter 6 [Miscellaneous] Advocates Act, 1961 as amended provides as follows; Section 47: “Where any country, specified by the Central Government in this behalf by notification in the Official Gazette, prevents citizens of India from practising the profession of law or subjects them to unfair discrimination in that country, no subject of[…..]
On 27th December 1948, Shri M. Thirumala Rao [Madras General] at the Constituent Assembly spoke as follows; I am free to confess that we are emphasizing the absence of God in this Constitution too much my opinion was that we should have his name in the Preamble but the general opinion was different that when[…..]
On 3rd January 1949, Mr. Nazeeruddin Ahmed [Bengal Muslim] at the Constituent Assembly spoke as follows; My Amendment want to introduce philosophy, religion and law, Sir, I submit that Philosophy is peculiarly Asiatic in origin, so is religion. All the great philosophies and all the great religions emanated from the East, there is no reason[…..]