I would like to take the house into the history of these provisions as they were discussed in the constituent assembly. Even at the time when the present article 369 was being considered by the constituent assembly, there was a body of opinion which felt that limiting the parliamentary jursidiction in respect of commodities like food grains and other agricultural products for a period of five years was taking a short view of the para of 14 of the letter written by the chairman of the drafting committee to the president of the constitutent assembly. I am making reference to this letter of the chairman in order to point out that the recommendation of the chairman of the drafting committee to the president to the constituent assembly was based on a previous enactment, namely, the provisions of the India (Central Government and Legislature) Act of 1946, which gave life in regard to the power exercised by the Central Legislature over those matters for a further period when the war legislation came to an end. It is not often that one looks back to what happened during the time when the constituent assembly was discussing. But it did gave me a certain pleasure, when I was looking into the proceedings of the constituent assembly to find that a friend of ours, who is a member of this house, had the farsightedness to feel at the time when article 206 of the draft constitution was being considered that the duration of the validity of the provisions of that article should be extended from 5 to 15 years. There are workers in the field of textile, garments, gems and jewellery, leather and construction who have been affected. There has been a sharp fall in the prices of produces like cotton, rubber and coffee. In such a situation, the Government has not concrete measure to protect the farmers. There have been deaths of the heroes. In some cases, they have reduced and in some cases, they have kept the same amount. 
