1743 Orissa Legislative [ RAJYA SABHA ] of Duration) 1744 Assembly {Extension BM, 1966 THE DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: The tions, are engaged in relief work. They House stands adjourned till 2.30 P.M. will be taken away from the relief work and will be employed in the election The House then adjourned work. The people themselves, who are for lunch at twelve minutes past living in conditions brought about by the one of the clock. draught, will also have to undergo the trouble of voting twice. Therefore, for all these reasons, there is very good justification for the exercise of the power conferred by Parliament under article 172, clause (1), proviso. The Constitution has The House reassembled after lunch at given power to Parliament to extend the half-past two of the clock, THE VICE- duration of a Legislative Assembly by CHAIRMAN (SHRI M. P. UHAROAVA) in one year. Now, this duration is sought to the Chair'. be extended up to the 1st day of March, 1967, so that elections to the State THE ORISSA LEGISLATIVE Assembly and the general elections may ASSEMBLY (EXTENSION synchronise. I hope that this Bill will OF DURATION) BILL, 1966 meet with unanimous support in this THE MINISTER OF LAW (SHRI G. House and will be passed, us it was S. PATHAK) : Sir, 1 beg to move : passed in, the Lok Sabha. "That the Bill to provide for the The question was propose I. extension of the duration of the present Legislative Assembly of the State of SHRI AKBAR ALI KHAN (Andhra Orissa, as passed by the Lok Sabha, be Pradesh): May I, with your permission, taken into consideration." ask the hon. Law Minister whether the Government here in Parliament and in the Hon. Members of this House must have Assembly consulted the Opposition noticed that the 20th August of this year Par'ies in this matter ? is the last date for the duration of the Legislative Assembly of Orissa. Now, it SHRI ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE is considered advisable in the (Uttar Pradesh): No. circums'ances that there should be simultaneous elections to the Assembly SHRI LOKANATH MISRA: 1 have to and to Parliament in February, 1967. If put another question. there is election now to the Orissa Assembly and election to Parliament later THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI M. P. in February, 1967, there will be BHARGAVA) : You can start your duplication of electoral work Parties who speech now. stand as candidates in the elections will have to incur expenditure on two occasions and the Parties, as well as the SHRI LOKANATH MISRA: Mr. Governmnent, will have unnecessarily to Vice-Chairman, I had occasion today to bear the expenditure. listen to one of the briefest speeches, while sponsoring a Bill, by any of the SHRI LOKANATH MISRA (Orissa): Ministers during my six vears in Rajya I should like to have a piece of informa- Sabha. tion at this stage. What was the election expense when it was held separately and SHRI AKBAR ALI KHAN: The what it was when it was held jointly ? I matter is very brief and the Law Minister would like to know it, in the course of is very precise. your speech, so that we can take it up. SHRI LOKANATH MISRA: The SHRI G. S. PATHAK: There will be explanation is evident. The only expla- duplication of work. Officers, who will nation is that there is absolutely nothing be concerned with conducting the elec- to justify it. The hon. Minister had absolutely no argument to put forward 1745 Orissa Legislative I 17 MAY 1%6 ] of Duration) 1746 Assembly {Exten Bill, 1966 while sponsoring the Bill. I do not SHRI SHEEL BHADRA YAJEE understand why he felt shy even to reply (Bihar): But in 1937 there was Congress to a question of mine when I put i . What Ministry in Orissa. was the expense incurred when the elections in Orissa were held separately SHRI LOKANATH MISRA: I am and when they were held jointly ? My sorry to find that the hon. Member does information in this regard is that the total not understand English. I said it is after of the two separately held elections was independence, after 1952, that we had less than the election expenses the never a stable Ministry in Orissa. No Government incurred when both the Party in Orissa came with an absolute elections were held simultaneously. That majority. Even so it was always the may be one of the reasons why the hon. Congress that formed the Ministry there. Minister kept silent about it. That was because—I think the country is well aware of it—there was a lot of horse PANDIT S. S. N. TANKHA (Uttar trading. Independent Members, who had Pradesh): What about the candidates' been elected, were taken away by the expenses to the two Houses, both to Congress. All sorts of allurements were Parliament and to the State Legislature ? held out to them. The Congress, being the ruling Party at the Centre, gave them all protection. The umbrella of protection SHRI LOKANATH MISRA: This was always held over anybody who led particular interruption of Pandit Tankha is the Congress Party in the Assembly there, a great surprise to rrie. It seems as if even though it was in a minority. That Pandit Tankha cares much more for way two Ministries functioned, but it was expenses of other political parties. I know very difficult for the Congress Party to he does not care for his own Party, continue that way. Any amount of because his Party's expenses are met by protection from the Centre cannot keep on somebody else. His main concern now a Ministry in this State unless the people appears to be that other political parties of the State themselves are behind it. would be put to a lot of expenditure. Therefore, corruption started creeping in When the very Party, for which he shows for the up-keep of the artificial ministry. great concern, advocates that there should Immediately after independence corrup- be separate elections, where does his tion started creeping in even among the argument stand ? I know for certain that people's representatives. Those of them he is not concerned about his own Party's who were elected as independent mem- expenditure. I know for certain that it is bers but subsequently joined the Congress met by others, not by the Congress Party, through certain allurements naturally gave themselves. an impression to the country that even the elected representatives of the country SHRI M. N. GOVINDAN NAIR cannot be relied upon. (Kerala): Who are the others ? SHRI P. N. SAPRU (Uttar Pradesh): SHRI LOKANATH MISRA : That What type of corruption ? everybody knows in the country. I wfll come to that some other time. SHRI SHEEL BHADRA YAJEE: Some members joined but not because of allurement. Now, Sir, while discussing this Bill, unless the House knows a little about the SHRI LOKANATH MISRA: I will genesis, it will not be complete. Aftt>r the first reply to Dr. Sapru's question with attainment of independence, Orissa had some veneration because it is a genuine never a stable Ministry. question he has asked. Subsequently a reply to the political question would be SHRI M. N. GOVINDAN NAIR: So, it given to Mr. Yajee. To Dr. Sapru's is like Kerala. question I would say that it was in the shape of even money, in certain cases in SHRI LOKANATH MTSRA: It is like the shape of certain other facilities Kerala. 1747 Orissa Legislative I RAJYA SABHA ] oj nitration) 1748 Assembly (Extension BUI, 1966 (Shri Lokanath Misra.] into neck-deep corruption during the unstable Ministry previously was perturbed. He owed a which are not normally given to members of lot. of money to the Orissa Government. He the Assembly. Mr. Sheel Bhadra Yajee had put up industries, all through the money interrupted saying that even some Ganatantra obtained from the Government of Orissa, like Parishad M.L.As merged with the Congress . Dr. Teja here who has built all his fortune on . Government of India's money. SHRI SHEEL BHADRA YAJEE: I said AN HON. MEMBER: Who? some members joined the Congress, but not due to money. SHRI LOKANATH MISRA: Dr. Teja. SHRI LOKANATH MISRA: That was the result of horse-trading. (Interruption) Coalition SHRI ATAL BIHARI VAJPAYEE: Of is something different. My friend does not Jayanti fame. understand the difference between a purchase and a coalition. Purchase is buying and a SHRI P. N. SAPRU: He was a very rich coalition is joining together to form a Govern- man. At least bis wife was very rich. I met ment under certain principles, certain them in 1954 in New York and I think he got a ideologies. big prize for scientific work in the United States. SHRI SHEEL BHADRA YAJEE : You are decrying the M.L.As. as if they are easily SHRI LOKANATH MISRA: Even though purchasable commodities. it is a. little departure from the main discussion, Dr. Teja's first wife, I am told, was SHRI LOKANATH MISRA: I have a rich lady who died in Rome. I am told also, decried your Chief Minister whom you held so under suspicious circumstances. That is it. high. I have decried corruption, I have decried sin, I have decried immorality, even if it is in AN HON. MEMBER: God help him. the Ministry at the Centre. I have fought against T. T. K. because I thought he was im* SHRI LOKANATH MISRA: There was an moral and corrupt. Wherever it is, I fight interruption and I had to reply to the against corruption.