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    "speaker_name": "Dr. Khalwale",
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    "content": "So, corrected, Mr. Speaker, Sir. Let me proceed from there. As you set this precedent in your ruling, you will have created a major decision which will become our tradition that my colleagues have articulated ably. Mr. Speaker, Sir, another point I would like you to address yourself to is, again, the procedure of the Chair exercising his right to vote. In so doing, I would like you to look at Standing Orders No.64 and 65. Kindly, see my line of thought. My line of thought is that once the Chair has called for a division, he patiently sits in that Chair, waits for the Ayes and the Noes to vote. He does not know the results on either side just like the Chair never knows whether a Member in the House is inappropriately dressed until the Chair’s attention is drawn to that. Then the Chair patiently sitting there is waiting that his attention be drawn to the outcome of the division. Should there be a tie, then the Chair will break it if he so chooses by voting. So, the decision I am begging you to make is that since the Chair decided to vacate the seat during division and went to one side of the House to go and cast his vote before he knew that there was a tie, was it procedural? The second point I would like you to clarify to my mind is that, yes, supposing you find it was procedural, had he voted in your view having decided that it was procedural and then the result of his voting was that he created a tie, who then would have broken the tie? If you find that had he voted the way he did, and he created a tie and then he comes and attempts to break the tie, would you be telling us that in any one Motion an hon. Member can vote twice? If an hon. Member cannot vote twice, then the reverse becomes that the Chair acted unprocedurally to anticipate the result and to try to break the tie before the result was brought before him."
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