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MR. SPEAKER:  That is there.  That right is not taken away.  I believe this is prior to that.

SHRI L.K. ADVANI (GANDHINAGAR):  Sir, I feel that when the Offices of Profit Bill would be taken up, you may not be in the Chair.

MR. SPEAKER:  I do not wish to be there.

SHRI L.K. ADVANI :  I appreciate your decision.  But I would like to plead with you on one point because, after all, you are the hon. Speaker.   The manner in which this particular matter is being dealt with by the  Government is not the right way.  For example, waiving of notices required for Bills or the circulation of the copy of the Bill to the Members can be waived in certain circumstances.   But by saying that the Bill is to be introduced today, to be passed today and is to be   * Published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part-II, Section-2, dated 16.5.2006 passed by the other House today, they are trying to bulldoze it which is not necessary at all.  I would like the Leader of the House to remember how this particular issue was messed up even in the beginning and how the House was adjourned sine die and, because of all that happened, we had to again convene a meeting and the House could not be prorogued. 

MR. SPEAKER:  Hon. Members, please do not misunderstand me.  Let me leave the Chair.  Hon. Deputy-Speaker would occupy the Chair SHRI L.K. ADVANI  :  Mr. Speaker Sir, I am not referring to the Offices of Profit Bill at the moment.

MR. SPEAKER:  I am sorry.  Now, hon. Deputy-Speaker is occupying the Chair.  Please do not misunderstand me.

 

12.09 hrs.                              (Mr. Deputy-Speaker in the Chair) … (Interruptions)

श्री इलियास आज़मी (शाहाबाद) : यह नैतिकता के बिल्कुल खिलाफ है। यह कोई नैतिकता का मामला नहीं cè[r1] ।… (Interruptions)

SHRI L.K. ADVANI : Mr. Deputy-Speaker, Sir, ordinarily, I would not have opposed introduction of a Bill. It is not the convention… (Interruptions)
MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER: Observe silence, Azmiji. The Bill is a very serious one. Take it seriously.
SHRI L.K. ADVANI  : I rise to oppose this introduction only because of one clause, and that clause is clause 2(i).  Otherwise, I would have waited for the Third Reading and that at the end of the Third Reading, as has been decided already by members of the National Democratic Alliance, we would have opposed the passing of the Bill. But, I believe, that when the Parliament (Prevention of Disqualification) Amendment Bill was first passed in 1953, later in 1959, it was never conceived that this would include offices which are virtually constitutional offices.  It was never contemplated.  I am reading the particular clause to which I am objecting. It says:
… (Interruptions)
SHRI L.K. ADVANI : Sir, there is no disrespect to you. You are fully entitled to decide. We would like to register our protest against the introduction of this Bill by the hon. Minister and, therefore, we stage a walk out.   12.28 hrs. (At this stage, Shri L.K. Advani and some other hon. Members left the House.)   SHRI BRAJA KISHORE TRIPATHY  : Mr. Deputy-Speaker, Sir, I want to raise a point of order.

MR. DEPUTY-SPEAKER: Under what rule?

SHRI BRAJA KISHORE TRIPATHY : Under rule 376. I am drawing your attention to rule 376. Kindly listen to me. When the introduction of a Bill is opposed under rule 72, you put the question to seek permission of the House to introduce the Bill and it also deserves division. So, I am now drawing your attention to rule 371. It says: