Mr. Vice-President, Sir, Dr. Ambedkar and his colleagues as also the typist and copyists have to be thanked for the labour expended inpreparing the Draft Constitution that is before us. This is a very big Draft and many things have been included in it. But as is the case with all drafts prepared by men, this Draft too has many defects. In particular, the use of the word “State” which has not been defined at any place is, in a way, very confusing to all of us, what a State means from the territorial or regional point of view is left entirely vague. its definition is not given at any place therein. From the point of view of rights of citizenship also it cannot be gathered what the term “State” means. For purposes of Fundamental Rights the term “States” has been made to include Legislatures of the States, Local Governments and the Government of the States. As the word “State” was generally used for Indian States, it would have been better if some other word had been substituted for it.
