Sir, in connection with my amendment No. 116, I wish to draw the attention of the House, the Drafting Committee and especially the draftsman to the use of the word ‘Government of India’. In fact this is to distinguish this expression from ‘Dominion of India’. I would submit that the word ‘Dominion of India’ really covers the period from 15th August 1947 up to the 25th January, 1950. Before that we had the expression ‘Government of India’, the expression ‘Government of India’ should be confined to Government before the ‘Dominion’ stage came in. After the Dominion stage is over, I submit that the expression ‘Union Government’ or the ‘Government of the Union’ should be used. This would be in accord with what we have done. We have already used ‘The Union of India’ in article 300 clause (i) and in other places. Then we have used in some articles the expression ‘Affairs of the Union.’ We have also used in other places the expression ‘the Union’. So we have already described the Government of India as the Union. So I submit that instead of using the expression ‘Government of India’, which would also include the Government before the Dominion stage, there should be some distinctive expression which may be fittingly described as the Union Government or the Government of the Indian Union. We have already in article 1, said that India shall be a ‘Union’ of States. So in the new set-up-things instead of the expression ‘Government of India’, the expression Union Government or ‘The Government of Indian Union’, or similar expression should be used. I have suggested some amendments, only desire that this may be considered by the drafting Committee.
