I also believe in the principle that controls are not indispensable, but we must consider what is necessary in the context of circumstances in the State because we are discussing questions which affect the State at the present moment. We are not discussing questions which affected us in the past or which will affect us after 10 or 15 years. We are discussing questions which are likely to affect us today or tomorrow or in the immediate future. If the policy followed by the Government is criticised then it is necessary that the House and the public at large should know exactly what policy the hon. Members opposite want this Government to follow. The real point is that it is not the policy that is being followed or that is going to be followed that they do not like. Their only desire is that the present Government should be discredited in one way or the other.
My hon. Friend Dr Amul Desai tried to define a politician. I do not want to attack the whole definition as such, but I think that half of it is, quite applicable to that category of the hon. Members or politicians who simply want to create difficulties, difficulties and difficulties, without suggesting any solution to the existing problems. I hope the hon. Member Shri Tulsidas Jadhav does not belong to that category and I would be glad if he does not belong to that category.
Then, Shri Jadhav referred to a statement that I made last time requesting co-operation of the members opposite. I may tell him that I am quite sincere about it. In this connection he made a reference to the question of the appointments of the members opposite on the District Supply Advisory Committees and the Taluka Supply Advisory Committees. He was pleased to hand me over a copy of the proceedings of the District Supply Advisory Committee of Sholapur on the basis of which he tried to speak. I am afraid he has not read them himself correctly. When I got them from him I tried to read them completely. This is how they read:
सरकारी हुकूम नं. ६०५--जुन--२८८२-२ अ ता. ७-६-१९५२ हा सभेस खुलासेवार संपूर्ण वाचून दाखविण्यांत आला. सभेस माहिती देण्यांत आली कीं, वरील हुकूमान्वयें जूने ऐम. ऐल. ऐज. आणि ऐम. ऐल. सीज. यांच्याऐवजी नवे ऐम. ऐल. ऐज आणि नवे ऐम. ऐल. सीज. हे जिल्हा पुरवठा समिती, तालूका पुरवठा समिती आणि रेशनिंग सल्लागार समिती यांच्यावर नेमण्यांत यावेत.
Now I would like to refer to the relevant portions of that order also:
According to the Constitution of the District Supply Advisory Committees all the members of the State Legislatures, that is, the Bombay Legislative Assembly and the Bombay Legislative Council, other than the Ministers, Parliamentary Secretaries and the President and Speaker of the Council and Assembly respectively, are the ex-officio members of such committees. In view of the recent general elections, new members have been elected to the State legislature who, according to the constitution of the Districts Supply Advisory Committees become their ex-officio members in the Districts, whereas the former Members of the Legislative Assembly and members of the Legislative Council who have not been re-elected cease to be members of these Committees; the new Members of the legislative Assembly and members of the Legislative Council should, therefore, be invited to attend instead of their predecessors . . . The sub-committees of the District Supply Advisory Committees and the Taluka Advisory Committees should also continue to function with the new Members of the Legislative Assembly and Members of the Legislative Council .. .
I find that certain names of members of this House, Members of the Legislative Council as well as Members of Parliament have been included. I have given Members an outline of the policy that has been accepted by this Government. As regards the particular case in Sholapur, I shall certainly look into it.
