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There is no doubt that the Constituent Assembly has every right and authority to pass any resolution concerning the constitution or any constitution it likes, but I think that it will not be fair for the Constituent Assembly to pass hurriedly any resolution of a vital character, on which will solely depend the destiny of people of Pakistan for generations and nay for centuries to come.

Tuesday, the 8tli March, 1949.

MOTION RE: AIMS AND OBJECTS-Contd.

 Mr. Bhupeudra Kumar Datta (East Bengal: General): Sir, I beg to move “That the paragraph beginning with the words whereas sovereignty over the entire universe and ending with the words is a sacred trust be omitted.”

 Sir, let me make it clear at the outset that I am not moving this amendment because I happen to be in the Opposition. I am moving it in no spirit of opposition; nor am I moving it as a member of the minority community. Whatever the minorities are to get under the constitution is indicated, in the substantive clauses of the Resolution. Sir. I feel, even if I were among the majority in the House, both by religious and political persuasion, I would move this amendment at this hour of the day.

 Sir, we are hereby the will of the people of our newly-won independent State of Pakistan to draw up a constitution for its future governance. Although all powers of an independent Slate emanate from the sovereign powers of its people, certain laws, rules and regulations must guide and control the relations between the people and the State. Such laws, rules and regulations have in the modern world come within the domain of matters, political. The relations between a State and its citizens may be, and have been throughout the ages, of diverse forms, but whatever the forms, they are subjects properly of politics. On the other hand, the relation between man and God comes within the sphere of religion. In all ages, there have been men and women who have believed that not a grass grows, not a leaf falls, not a star shows itself except by the will of God. Similarly, whatever takes place there in human affairs is guided and controlled by God. Many in this House, I have no doubt in my mind, do believe that we could not be assembled here except by the will of the Creator. But even if they do believe it, they go about their business, even about the business of this House, with that tacit, albeit, deep faith, with that un-exhibited background of the mind-they go about it in all devoutness, all humility, without making a flourish of it.

 Thus even in a world where vast numbers of men had a more living faith than today in the omnipresence and omnipotence of God, they found it more convenient, more suitable, more methodical to assign proper spheres to their relation with their Maker and to their relation with their ruling power of governing apparatus.

 Nay, Sir, let me go further, Politics and religion belong to two different regions of the mind, even if it be held that these two regions are inter-related by the presence of God, or