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EXTRAORDINARY

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PART II—Section 2

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No. 33 NEW DELHI, MONDAY, MAY i8, I97O/VAISAKHA a8, 1893 (SAKA)

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LOK SABHA

The following Bill was introduced in Lok Sabha on the 18th May,

1970: —

BILL NO. 53 OF 1970.

A Bill further to amend the Constitution of India

BE it enacted by I ;irliairj;nt n thr Twraty-first Year of the Republic of India as follows:—

1. This Act may be called the Constitution (Twenty-fourth Short

t i t le Amendment) Act, 1970.

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2. Articles 291 and 362 of the Constitution shall be omitted.

Omission of articles 291 and 362.

3, In article 366 of the Constitution, clause (22) shall be omitted. Amend-

ment of article 36.

The concept of rulershjp, with privy purses and special privileges unrelated to any current functions and social purposes, is incompatible with an egalitarian social order. Government have therefore decided to terminate the privy purses and privileges of the Rulers of former Indian States. Hence this Bill.

NEW DELHI; Y. B. CHAVAN.

The 14th May, 1970.

S. L. SHAKDHER.

Secretary.