The arguments that he has adduced are before the house, and I would request hon. Members to consider them dispassionately. If any bank is really going to suffer a serious setback, I am sure that this house and, I venture to say, all sections of it will accpet the necessity of modification, however much they might ordinarily such a step as being bad in principle and unacceptable in practice: After all, it is only in a healthy economy that bank employees or any other groups of wage-earners can hope to secure a reasonable living. Sir, as the other hon. Members have pointed out, this bill has had a very chequered history. I do not think in the history of parliament, after this country became independent, any bill has suffered the duress of circumstances so badly as this bill has suffered. But all the same, it does indicate the confused thinking of the government of India. Really, how to explain the situation? This bill has been introduced again in the fourth Lok Sabha. As the hon. Member, pointed out this bill has assumed really a very peculiar character because, somehow or other, neither the government nor the persons have been able to explain fully as to what exactly they want to do with the patents in this country. This bill was also introduced in the third Lok Sabha but it could not be passed. It was always said that it was due to lack of time which prohibited this bill to be passed. The life of one Lok Sabha is five years. I am surprised that in teh life of the second Lok Sabha. It was not passed; in the life of the third Lok Sabha, it was not passed and it has now come in the fourth Lok Sabha. Let us really expect that this bill will see a better fate now. It is not that there was any lack of material. As the hon. Member who just spoke before me pointed out, many committees were appointed. First of all, a committee was appointed by the government of India to go into the entire law of patents.
