Similarly further on we find the right `to acquire, hold and dispose of property’. My friend Prof. YashwantRai has said with reference to this freedom that there is an unfortunate section–the scheduled castes–in the Punjab who cannot purchase land on account of the provisions of the Land Alienation Act. Moreover the right that you have granted by this sub-clause to every citizen has been taken away by the clause which permits the Land Alienation Act to remain in force even in future. Thus the right which the Harijans should also, like other citizens, get under this Constitution would not be available to the Harijans of the Punjab on account of the Land Alienation Act of the Punjab.
