The state whose authority has been established after attaining independence is in its infancy and has yet to endure many kinds of sufferings and to ensure that the state functions smoothly, whatever we can do, We must assure him.
… none of us have complete knowledge about what the future will be like, but we all know this much, at least many of us believe that the future will be beautiful and the state will be progressive in the future. And this future will be such in which the state will interfere more and more in the economic life of the people and will do such a thing not because it wants to curtail the rights of the individuals, but will do so because the life of the people is beautiful. I imagine such a state, a state which is not restless, but is alert and works to improve the condition of the people.
…this particular article is the soul of the Fundamental Rights, there is no use in comparing it with the texts of the British legislation or with the American legislation or with any other legislation, because their bases are completely different. …I would like to emphasize on a special amendment which has been moved by my friend KM Munshi. The purpose of that amendment is only sentimental, it does not contain the word sedition. …the mere mention of the word sedition in this country makes us angry, because the word sedition was used against our leaders in the long run of our political movement. We are not alone in harboring hatred for the word. Students of statutory law will remember that there was a provision in late 18th-century American law books that provided for a special law regarding treason, which was only for a few years and more or less in 1802. became obsolete. The hatred of this word seems to be almost universal. Even those people who show hatred have not suffered as much from the meaning and subject of the word as we are. Simultaneously the amendment of my honorable Friend KM Munshi fulfills a great need as far as this State is concerned. It may be possible that after ten years it is not necessary to make a provision in the Fundamental Rights to bar the absolute right to freedom of speech, freedom of convention. But in the present condition of the country, I think it is necessary that there should be some specific restrictions on the exercise of these rights. In the amendment moved by my honorable Friend Munshi, the meaning of the State is legislation and in my view when we are making a constitution which in our opinion is a compromise of two possible external views and is in accordance with the wisdom of our people, then it is It is necessary that we should take all possible precautions for the maintenance of that Constitution and therefore I consider that the amendment moved by my honorable Friend Munshi is a pleasant middle path and is such that it can be interpreted as such. If, unfortunately, such a necessity arises, that the State should be given adequate defense against divisive forces.
… the implementation of special rights will depend on the tact of our people and on how we advance the ideas of liberty, which are still in a very degraded state. Of course, it is true that our leaders are sometimes in a hurry, they want more powers, when they are faced with difficult situations, they think that the only way to get out of them is to get more powers. . They do not believe that they are the leaders of the people, they are the minority leaders of this country.
… to reduce the rights which have been ordered here to such a degree that they become lifeless, it is up to the leaders, which we will get next, and those leaders are now playing in the lap of the gods. Till that time we have done the best work that only man can imagine. I support the article before us.
(Excerpts from the idea tabled in the Constituent Assembly)
