VAISAKHA 19, 1919 (Saka) Private Member's Resolution 31P 317 Finance Bill minutes, as a tea break, to meet again at 3.30 p.m. Their take-home salary was being reduced, i was assured that what was given to the employees of the 15.09 hrs. banking sector would be extended to the insurance sector also. I do not know why the Finance Minister has become The Lok Sabha then adjourned till thirty minutes past so rigid in regard to the employees of the insurance sector Fifteen of the Clock. When he has assured that autonomy will be given, the management to LIC and GIC were asked to negotiate with the employees and their associations, and settle the 15.41 hrs. pending issues. I request the Finance Minister that the right to collective bargaining, as he has assured on the floor The Lok Sabha re-assembled at forty-one minutes past of the House today, be given to the employees of LIC and Fifteen of the Clock. GIC. The management should negotiate with the employ­ (S hri P.M. S ayeed in the Chair) ees to settle the pending issues. We have expressed our reservations. [English] MR. SPEAKER: I think you have expressed them very COMMITTEE ON PRIVATE MEMBERS’ BILLS AND eloquently RESOLUTIONS DR. MURLI MANOHAR JOSHI: I am reminded of a Eighth Report small couplet of the great Urdu poet Akbar llahabadi. PROF. PREM SINGH CHANDUMAJRA (PATIALA). Sir. Qaum Key Gham Mein Dinner Khaati Ha: C.P.M. I beg to move: Hukkaam Key Saath “That this House do agree with the Eighth Report of Dard Aapko Bahut Hai Magar Aaraam Key Saath the Committee on Private Members Bills and Resolu* tions Presented to the House on the 7th May, 1997. SHRI P. CHIDAMBARAM: I have held discussions with Shri Acharia An opportunity for a wide-ranging debate on MR. CHAIRMAN: The question is: the insurance rector is coming up when the IRA Bill will “That this House do agree with the Eighth report of the be introduced in this House. I have already written to him Committee on Private Members Bills and Resolutions and to his party leader also. Let the debate come. At that presented to the House or; the 7th May. 1.-*97. time the views that I had expressea in my letter, I will articulate in the House. He has a right to say what he The motion was adopted wants to say. The House can debate the insurance sector. I believe, Sir, that notwithstanding their ideological and philosophical reservations on the Finance Bil! and the Budget, in the heart of hearts, they support the direction 15.42 hrs. of the reforms that we have taken up. And I thank all PRIVATE MEMBER'S RESOLUTION sections of the House for the broad and generous support they have given me in piloting this Budget and this Finance Illegal Immigrants-contd. Bill. [English] SHRIMATI GEETA MUKHERJEE (PANSKURA). I hope MR. CHAIRMAN. We shall take up further discussion that the IRA Bill will have a different connotation when it on the Illegal Immigrants Resultion moved by Shri Jagat comes. Vir Singh Drona on the 13th December, 1996. The time MR. SPEAKER: The question is: allotted for this Resolution is five hours, the House has already taken four hours and twelve minutes, and only forty- "That the Bill, as amended, be passed eight minutes are left. Shri G.M. Banatwalla was on his The motion was adopted feet. Shri G.M. Banatwalla, you may please continue your speech. [English] SHRI G M BANATWALLA (PONNANI): Mr. Chairman, MR. SPEAKER: I must thank all the hon. Members very Sir, it is most unfortunate that the entire question of the sincerely. For clause-by-clause discussion, we had ear­ presence of illegal migrants in the country has been marked two hours. For third reading, we had earmarked politicised and a bogie is sought to be raised about tor one hour. Out of the three hours allotted, we spent exactly the so-called large scale infiltration in the country. 58 minutes to transact this business. Congratulations to The very origin of this controversy lies in the electoral all of you. battle that was to be fought in Assam. Accordingly, a Since there is no more Government business before the question was raised on the occasion of the by-election of Private Members Bills, I adjourn the House for twenty 319 Private Member's Resolution MAY 9, 1997 Private Member's Resolution 320 [Shri G.M. Banatwalla] tification of the so-called Illegal migrants. Mangaldoi Parliamentary constituency of Assam in 1978 An objection was taken to about 48,000 voters in Mangaldoi I have already dwelt on that particular aspect and will Parliamentary Constituency and to about 35,000 voter*-- in not respeat what I have already spoken last time But it Barpeta Parl.amentary Constituency. So, we find that the is shocking to find that the right to citizenship in our country origin of the entire political propaganda starts witn the b not d fundamental right. That is even against the United electoral ,oHs and the approaching of the by-election in Nations Declaration of Human Rights. Mangaldoi Parliamentary Constituency in 1978. m«ntmw <ake ,hiS ° PPOrtUni,y ,0 ur9® ^ o n the Qovern- nanS!'' I must Point out here that this large scale propa­ to h u amendment of the Constitution so as ganda about the presence of the so-called illegal migrants make the right to citizenship a fundamental rinht in m our country is going on incessantly. accordance with the international thinking as embodied in the Unrted Nations' Declaration of Human J a n u a t V « b/? UV r ^ ^ dUri" 9 ,he period January 1986 to July 1993, nearly 2,87,000 complaints People are being harassed and those who are stayina were referred to the Tribunal in Assam to determine their th l f ! 9enerua{l0ns and generations are harassed despite * 87Uooo ,0 WtT th6r th0V W0re iHe9al mi9ran,s Out of this <-,87.000 complaints referred to the Tribunal, hardly 8 000 iQ R ? f L Citlzensh'P Act was amended in the year were identified as illegal migrants and in other cases ’ the 966 n a ° 1 th° Se Wh° came be,ore 1s‘ ^nuary 1966 to Assam are deemed to be the citizens. Now the complaints were found ,0 be frivolous. That itself shows question was solved anc those who came by 1st January he po itically motivated propaganda that has gone on with 1966 were already given all the rights of citizens by an ih« n« i f Par1lcular Problerri Also, I have already given amendment ot the Citizenship Act Those who he official figures given by the Home Minister with respect between 1966 and 25 May, 1971 were given a^l 2 2 o infiltration cases in reply to an Unstarred Ques ion h e t m the House. I will not repeat them. except, of course, the right to vote which they would acquire after ten years. But despite all these provisions peooe But then I may point out another factor Take the res.d,ng for generatjons and generatjonPs a n n h 0 PSw° eP H electoral rolls themselves for certain periods and examine born here were harassed Suc thesftu&tion the percentage rise in the number of voters in T o ^ that we have in this particular respect. r S * r er n0t ,0 C0nsume ,0° ^ h time Sof ine House. I may concentrate on Assam. The Assam Sir, I will not take much time and conclude by makina electoral roll of 1991 had 1,18,73,952 voters. By 1996 the. cardsPP®a' L®’ us dis,ribute "hat you may call residency number of voters were hardly 1,25,87,659 So what is the not f 1? l Cy certifica,es our border areas I am not talking of citizenship certificates. I am onlv talkina of ™ , m i r ab0Ut ,he lar9e SCa,S in^ltration. You L ™' "s “T 9 ln ana 98“"9 ** and ^ “ '1#ICa',S ■'Hl 'he»' sh°“« S«n to « h ham g ,hs* impac, U , r " V T is ,her* “ » >< the borde'so i r ^ 9o9r r ,hs ™ »»T«»* r s X n ”'6,oeaic ! ; ' n.k„ j ,erms 01 borders But w i t t ^ aVery Person residing in our b e ^ th e reV7° ne- at 0attthemabnor^rshnould d b - £ r \ r ^ own course BuTtha? T harassmem' let «» law take its .» v ivin9 has been sought to be in it V ° U,C,y as » j l , * “ • p H 'h‘ c r “ ° S in,ita,k>n o< ,he t r s r i z ; * ' : s r t ' V * interests. V Who have Povaliy vested not be any harassment ^hateoeve^orthe mU$t burden of proof whJthor Pr° V‘de that ,he onU8 or Private Member's Resolution 322 321 Private Member's Resolution VAISAKHA 19, 1919 (Saka) itv. Today we have an obnoxious rule that it is the accused 16.00 hrs. who is asked to prove his own citizenship. Tais is a colonial I do consider today that the ties are still similar and legacy that we have had because of the World War one. They are inseparable, be it a Tamilian in Jaffna or situation that was then prevailing. This particular position be it a Tamilian in Chennai, their common emotional ties must go and the Foreigners’ Act must be amended. are unbreakable and no Constitution of the world can break that emotional tie.