বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র
(iii) India is dependent on USSR for taking any major decision.
(iv)India is not inclined to believe that an Independent Bangladesh can come at
this stage for the reasons as mentioned above in item (iv) of page 820.
(v) Therefore, for India there are the following alternatives:
(a) To go for a political settlement on reasonable terms that will take the Awami
League leadership to power and the refugees back home. They expect that
even if a political settlement is there, there will be no stability in Bangladesh
and consequently in Pakistan. This situation will continue to make Pakistan
weaker and weaker and at the same time, through Awami League Government
they will be able to have some trade and commercial links to benefit the
Indian industries.
(b) To continue with the present situation till that psychological moment comes
when Pakistan Government will eventually accept terms which will be
favorable to Bangladesh because of the pressures, political, climatic and
economic from within. At such a time India may even give recognition to
Bangladesh, help heavily in military terms, and march into Bangladesh.
(c) If the position No. (b) above is too burdensome for India because of the
refugees and the position in paragraph (a) above becomes impossible because
Pakistan Government's present hard-line attitude. India may even create such
conditions that a portion of the refugees will be compelled to go back. To
substantiate it one can say that (a) the rice allocation to each refugee has been
brought down from 4 hundred grams to 200 for one day, (c) supply of arms
may also be reduced, (d) there is a possibility that facilities for training, youth
camp etc. will be reduced gradually.
(c) The tension that have been built up in many refugee camps, whether for
communal or economic reasons may also lead India Government to take such
measure which will indirectly pressurize the refugees to go back.
THEREFORE INDIA RESTRAINS HERSELF FOR AN INDEPENDENT BANGLADESH AT THIS STAGE.
Britain, France, Canada and all other major countries have also expressed openly that they wanted a settlement within the framework of Pakistan. In other words, not a single country in this world including India bas come forward to support the Independent Bangladesh.
THEREFORE THERE IS AN INTERNATIONAL PRESSURE TO RETAIN PAKISTAN AS A SINGLE STATE SUPPORTED BY ALL THE MAJOR COUNTRIES INCLUDING INDIA, AT THE MOMENT.
The powers which were sympathetic to us and were considered to be trusted friends have also now turned against the concept of an independent Bangladesh. India's Minister for External Affairs Mr. Swaran Singh told the United Nations General Assembly on
