Experience before legislation
From the debate in the CONSTITUENT ASSEMBLY OF INDIA - Friday, the 16th September 1949
Shri Mahavir Tyagi (United Provinces: General) : Sir, Dr. Ambedkar will please pardon me when I express my fond wish that he and the other members of the Drafting Committee had had the experience of detention in jails before they became members of the Drafting Committee.
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: I shall try hereafter to acquire that experience.
Shri Mahavir Tyagi: I may assure Dr. Ambedkar that, although the British Government did not give him this privilege, the Constitution he is making with his own hands will give him that privilege in his life-time