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Somnath Lahiri

  1. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CONSIDERATION OF THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES OF PROCEDURETomorrow morning, 11 o’clock.
  2. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CONSIDERATION OF THE REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON RULES OF PROCEDURESir, Hon’ble Gentleman has said that there is nothing to add. At any rate, we have got to go through them to make the same discovery that the Hon’ble…

  1. Mr. Somnath Lahiri (Bengal: General) :BUDGET ESTIMATES OF THE CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLYIt deals with public money. I do not see any reason why we should be afraid of discussing in public.

  1. Mr. Somnath Lahiri (Bengal: General) :MR. S. LAHIRI’S LETTER TO THE PRESIDENTMay I remind you, Sir, that you are not only the President of this Assembly, but also a Member of the Interim Government?

  1. Mr. Somnath Lahiri (Bengal : General) :REPORT OF THE STATES COMMITTEEOn a point of information Sir, of the representatives of the States who have come to participate in this House, how many have been elected and how many…

  1. Mr. Somnath Lahiri (Bengal: General):INTERIM REPORT ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS*I agree with what Pandit Kunzru suggested because it is rather difficult to make a fine distinction between what are justiciable rights and what are not.…
  2. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :INTERIM REPORT ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS*I will not discuss any more of the amendments. We thus find that the feeling among Congressmen in general, as evidenced by this circular of the…
  3. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CLAUSE 4—RIGHTS OF EQUALITYSir, I support the original motion but there should not be any discrimination on the ground of political creed. The whole idea of these clauses is that…
  4. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CLAUSE 4—RIGHTS OF EQUALITYI have moved both the amendments, Sir.

  1. Mr. Somnath Lahiri (Bengal: General) :INTERIM REPORT ON FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS—Contd.CLAUSE 5.—RIGHTS OF EQUALITYMy amendment (i.e., No. 29 of the Supplementary List I) is on the same grounds as my amendment of yesterday, relating to political creed. So I do not…
  2. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CLAUSE 8—RIGHTS OF FREEDOM .Sir, as I have amendments to all the subclauses of clause 8, I request you to allow me to move all of them together. Some of them have become redundant…
  3. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CLAUSE 8—RIGHTS OF FREEDOM .All these clauses have reference to the subjects’ right to freedom and so on. I can move them now or later on. Both mean the same thing,
  4. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CLAUSE 8—RIGHTS OF FREEDOM .Even if you ask me, Sir, not to move this amendment now, as soon as this is over you will have to ask me to move it. So it comes to the same thing.
  5. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CLAUSE 8—RIGHTS OF FREEDOM .I have already said that, since I have put up these amendments, I have to be called after clause 8 has been finished. The clauses that I have moved also…
  6. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CLAUSE 8—RIGHTS OF FREEDOM .If you give a ruling like that, Sir, I have no objection.
  7. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CLAUSE 8—RIGHTS OF FREEDOM .I do not take part in the voting as a protest, Sir, because I think this is not a votable matter.
  8. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CLAUSE 8—RIGHTS OF FREEDOM .My amendments are Nos. 48, 49 and 52 of Supplementary List I. No. 48—“That in clause 8 for the words ‘security or the Union’ the words ‘defence of the…
  9. Mr. Somnath Lahiri :CLAUSE 8—RIGHTS OF FREEDOM .Sir, I support the suggestion of Mr. Jaipal Singh regarding special protection to the tribal people. These people are downtrodden and backward and need…