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16.10 hrs. CONSTITUTION (ONE-HUNDREDTH AMENDMENT) BILL.2003 (Amendment of Eighth Schedule) Title : Discussion on the Constitution (One-Hundredth Amendment) Bill, 2003. (Amendment of Eighth schedule) (Bill passed).

MR. SPEAKER: Now, the House will take up item no. 23.

THE DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER AND IN CHARGE OF THE MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS AND MINISTRY OF PERSONNEL, PUBLIC GRIEVANCES AND PENSIONS (SHRI L.K. ADVANI): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I beg to move:

"That the Bill further to amend the Constitution of India, be taken into consideration."

SHRI BAJU BAN RIYAN : In one of the recommendations, it was said that for the people belonging to the minorities, their language should be the medium of instruction in the school if the number of students may be 40 or so. So, this type of concession should be there. … (Interruptions) The Government should think how these minority languages should be included in the Eighth Schedule.

SHRI SANSUMA KHUNGGUR BWISWMUTHIARY (KOKRAJHAR): Hon. Speaker, Sir, I am very much thankful to you for having given me an opportunity to speak on this very important Bill viz : " Constitution (one hundredth Amendment) Bill, 2003" which has been moved by the hon. Deputy Prime Minister, Shri L.K. Advani so as to help facilitate the inclusion of ""Bodo Language"" in the eighth schedule to the Constitution.

At the initial stage of my deliberation, I would like to thank the entire NDA Government, particularly Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee, the Prime Minister, Shri L.K. Advani, the hon. Deputy Prime Minister and other allies of the NDA Government for having taken such a bold decision to accommodate ""Bodo Language"" also in the eighth schedule to the Constitution.

And at the same time, I salute all the learned Members of this august House for their helping hand and co-operation in getting this important Bill passed in this august House on this most significant and historic day. Today, indeed, I personally feel highly honoured and the entire Bodo people of the whole world alo do surely feel so. It was long overdue and today, undoubtedly, it is going to be fulfilled. It is a welcome move.

17.00 hrs. MR. SPEAKER: Subject to correction*, the result of the division is:

Ayes : 337 Noes : Nil The motion is carried by a majority of the total membership of the House and by a majority of not less than two-thirds of the Members present and voting. The motion was adopted. Clause 2, as amended, was added to the Bill. Clause 1 Short TitleAmendment made:

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Substitute "Ninety-second" (3) (Shri L.K. Advani) MR. SPEAKER: The question is: "That clause 1, as amended, stand part of the Bill." The motion was adopted. Clause 1, as amended, was added to the Bill. The Enacting Formula and the Title were added to the Bill. _________________________________________________________________ * AYES : 337+ Shri Ramakant Angle, Prof. Chaman Lal Gupta, Shri Suresh Ramrao Jadhav, Shri Savshibhai Makwana, Shri Pratapsinh Mohitepatil, Shri Rupchand Murmu, Shri Nagmani, Shri Basangouda R. Patil (Yatanal) and Shri Sunder Lal Patwa recorded their votes through slips = 346. NOES : Nil                             MR. SPEAKER: The Minister may now move that the Bill, as amended, be passed. SHRI L.K. ADVANI: I beg to move: "That the Bill, as amended, be passed." MR. SPEAKER: The question is: "That the Bill, as amended, be passed." The Lok Sabha divided: DIVISION NO. 11 AYES Time : 17.02 hrs. A.Narendra, Shri Abdullakutty, Shri A.P. Acharia, Shri Basu Deb Adhi Sankar, Shri Aditya Nath, Yogi Adsul, Shri Anandrao Vithoba Advani, Shri L.K. Aiyar, Shri Mani Shankar Alvi, Shri Rashid Ambedkar, Shri PrakashYashwant Ananth Kumar, Shri Angle,Shri Ramakant Argal,Shri Ashok Arya, Dr.(Shrimati) Anita Athawale, Shri Ramdas Atkinson,Shri Denzil B. Azad,Shri Kiriti Jha Baalu, Shri T.R. ‘Bachda’, Shri Bachi Singh Rawat Badnore, Shri Vijayendra Pal Singh Bainda, Shri Ramchander Bais, Shri Ramesh Banatwalla, Shri G.M Banerjee,Shrimati Jayashree Bansal, Shri Pawan Kumar Barwala,Shri Surendra Singh Basavanagoud, Shri Kolur Basavaraj, Shri G.S. Basu, Shri Anil Bhadana, Shri Avtar Singh Bhagat, Prof. Dukha Bhagora, Shri Tarachand Bhargava, Shri Girdhri Lal Bhatia, Shri R.L. Bhuria, Shri Kantilal Bind, Shri Ram Rati Bishnoi, Shri Jaswant Singh Bose,Shrimati Krishna Bwiswmuthiary, Shri Sansuma Khunggur Suguna Kumari,Dr. (Shrimati) Chakraborty, Shri Ajoy Chakravarty, Shrimati Bijoya Chandel, Shri Suresh Catterjee, Shri Somnath Chaturvedi, Shri Satyavrat Chaubey, Shri Lal Muni Chaudhary, Shri Haribhai Chaudhary, Shri Ram Raghunath Chaudhary, Shri Ram Tahal Chaudhri, Shri Manibhai Ramjibhai Chauhan, Shri Nandkumar Singh Chauhan, Shri Shriram Chennithala, Shri Ramesh Chikhalia, Shrimati Bhavnaben Devrajbhai Choudhary, Col.(Retd.) Sona Ram Choudhary, Shri Nikhil Kumar Choudhary, Shrimati Reena Choudhry,Shri Padam Sen Chouhan, Shri Nihal Chand Chouhan, Shri Shivraj Singh Chowdhary, Shri Adhir Chowdhary, Shrimati Santosh Chowdhury, Shri Bikash C Cowdhury, Shrimati Renuka Das, Shri Alakesh Das, Shri Khagen Das, Shri Nepal Chandra Dasmunsi, Shri Priya Ranjan Dattatraya, Shri Bandaru Delkar, Shri Mohan S. Deo, Shri Bikram Keshari Dev, Shri Sontosh Mohan Dhikale, Shri Uttamrao Diler, Shri Kishan Lal Diwathe, Shri Namdeo Harbaji Dudi, Shri Rameshwar Elangovan, Shri P.D. Farook, Shri M.O.H. Fernandes, Shri George Gadhavi, Shri P.S. Galib, Shri G.S. Gamang, Shrimati Hema Gandhi, Shri Dilipkumar Mansukhlal Gandhi, Shrimati Maneka Gandhi, Shrimati Sonia Gangwar, Shri Santosh Kumar Gautam, Shrimati Sheela Gavit, Shri Manikrao Hodlya Gavit, Shri Ramdas Rupala Geete, Shri Anant Gangaram Gehlot, Shri Thawar Chand Ghatowar, Shri Paban Singh Goel, Shri Vijay Gogoi, Shri Dip Gohain, Shri Rajen Govindan, Shri T. Gudhe, Shri Anant Gupta, Prof.Chaman Lal Hamid, Shri Abdul Handique, Shri Bijoy Haque, Mohammad Anwarul Hussain, Shri Syed Shahnawaz Jadhav, Shri Suresh Ramrao Jag Mohan, Shri Jagannath, Dr. Manda Jain, Shri Pusp Jaiswal, Dr. M.P. Jaiswal, Shri Shankar Prasad Jaiswal, Shri Shriprakash Jalappa, Shri R.L. Jatiya, Dr.Satyanarayan Javiya, Shri G.J. Jayaseelan, Dr.A.D.K. Jos, Shri A.C. Kaliappan, Shri K.K. Kannappan, Shri M. Kashyap, Shri Bali Ram Kaswan, Shri Ram Singh Katara, Shri Babubhai K. Kataria, Shri Rattan Lal Kathiria, Dr. Vallabhbhai Kaushal, Shri Raghuvir Singh Khaire, Shri Chandrakant Khan, Shri Abul Hasnat Khan, Shri Hassan Khan, Shri Sunil Khandelwal, Shri Vijay Kumar Khandoker, Shri Akbor Ali Khanduri, Maj.Gen.(Retd.) B.C. Khanna, Shri Vinod Khurana, Shri Madan Lal Kriplani, Shri Shrichand Krishnamraju, Shri Krishnan, Dr. C. Krishnaswamy, Shri A. Kulaste, Shri Faggan Singh Kumar, Shri Arun Kumar, Shri V. Dhananjaya Kuppusami, Shri C. Kusmaria, Dr. Ramkrishna Kyndiah, Shri P.R. Lahiri, Shri Samik (Diamond Harbour) M.Master Mathan, Shri Mahajan, Shri Y.G. Mahajan, Shrimati Sumitra Mahale, Shri Haribhau Shankar Mahant, Dr. Charan Das Maharia, Shri Subhash Mahato, Shri Bir Singh Mahto, Shrimati Abha *Makwana, Shri Savshibhai ________________________________________________________________ * Voted through slip Malhotra, Dr. Vijay Kumar Malyala, Shri Rajaiah Mandal, Shri Brahma Nand Mane, Shri Shivaji Manjay Lal, Shri Manjhi, Shri Ramjee Mann, Sardar Simranjit Singh Mann, Shri Zora Singh Meena, Shri Bherulal Meena, Shrimati Jas Kaur Meghwal, Shri Kailash Mehta, Shrimati Jayawanti Mishra, Shri Ram Nagina Mishra, Shri Shyam Bihari Mistry, Shri Madhusudan Mohan, Shri P. Mohite, Shri Subodh *Mohitepatil, Shri Pratapsinh Mollah, Shri Hannan Mookherjee, Shri Satya Brata _______________________________________________________________ * Voted through slip Moorthy, Shri A.K. Munda, Shri Kariya Muni Lall, Shri Murmu, Shri Rupchand Murmu, Shri Salkhan Murugesan, Shri S. *Nagmani, Shri Naik, Shri Ali Mohd.