81 Sometimes the parliamentary debates are taken into consideration in interpreting a constitutional provision. In this regard Patanjali Sastri, CJ. ruled that speeches made in the Constituent Assembly in course of draft constitution could be used as aids for interpreting any article of the constitution. He observed that: “… the use made by … Judges below of the speeches made by the members of the Constituent Assembly in the course of the debates on the draft Constitution is unwarranted. That this form of extrinsic aid to the interpretation admissible has been of statutes generally is accepted not in England, and the same rule has been observed in the construction of Indian Statutes. The reason behind the rule was explained by one of us in Gopalan that “A speech made in the course of the debate on a bill could at best be indicative of the intent of the speaker, but it could not reflect the inarticulate mental process lying behind the majority