Constituent Assembly Debates -Dr Rajendra Pasad -TWO REGRETS
Saturday, the 26th November,1949
• ... There
are only two regrets which I must share with the honourable Members I would
have liked to have some qualifications laid down for members of the Legislatures. It is anomalous
that we should insist upon high qualifications for those who administer or help
in administering the law but none for those who made it except that they are
elected. A law giver requires intellectual equipment but even more than that
capacity to take a balanced view of things to act independently and above all
to be true to those fundamental things of life – in one word – to have
character (Hear, hear). It is not possible to devise any yardstick for
measuring the moral qualities of a man and so long as that is not possible, our
Constitution will remain defective.
• The other
regret is that we have not been able to draw up our first Constitution of a
free Bharat in an Indian language. The difficulties in both cases were practical and
proved insurmountable. But that does not make the regret any the less poignant.
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