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I will not be very long. I only wish to submit that if thePresident, who has been elected by the members of theParlI ament, wants to vacate his office by resigning hispost, in all fairness it is desirable that he should addresshis resignation to the members of the ParlI ament and not toanyone else. The resignation letter may be handed over to the office, namely to the Speaker or to the Chairman of theCouncil of States, but he must address his resignation to the members of ParlI ament who elected him as President andto none else.

Honourable Members: Yes.

Shri B. M. Gupte: Sir, I beg to move:

That for amendment No. 1090 the following besubstituted:--

(1) Article 45 be re-numbered as clause (1) of that article. (2) In clause (a) of the proviso to the said clause as so re-numbered for the words "Chairman of the Council of States and the Speaker of the House of the People" the word "Vice-President" be substituted. (3) In the said article as re-numbered add the following clause:-- "(2) Any resignation addressed to the Vice-President under clause (a) of the proviso to clause (1) of this article shall forthwith be communicated by him to the Speaker of the House of the People.) Sir, the clause as it stands in the Draft Constitutionprovides that the resignation shall be addressed to twopersons, namely, the Chairman of the Council of States and the Speaker of the House of the people. This is obviouslyinconvenient. It is therefore better that provision shouldbe made that one person should receive the resignation andbe responsible to set the machinery in motion to fill thevacancy. And that person is most properly the Vice-President. I have therefore provided that the Vice-Presidentshould receive the resignation. But at the same time it isdesirable that the Speaker of the House of the people shouldalso know it, and therefore by a subsequent clause I haveprovided that the Vice-President shall forthwith communicatethis fact of resignation to the Speaker of the House of thepeople. I therefore hope the amendment will be acceptable toDr. Ambedkar and to the House.