I submit these rules have in practice led to a serious state of affairs. There are a number of errors, anomalies, redundancies and repetitions. I shall refer to only one repetition of a glaring nature. Article 89, clause (1) says: “The Vice-President of India shall be an ex-officio Chairman of the Council of States.” Exactly the same provision, in the same identical words also occur in article 64 where it says: “The Vice-President of India shall be an ex-officio Chairman of the Council of States”. One of these provisions should have been deleted. I ventured to attempt it, but I was ruled out on the ground that such glaring repetitions would be looked over by the Drafting Committee. The Drafting Committee have simply ignored it and the repetition remains. (Interruption).
