sacrificed, rather than see it continue to be jeopardized what would you ask the Indian people to do as a last resort to solve this problem for you?
The Prime Minister: Well, it is very important that we lessen our poverty, that we right against the various social and economic injustices and inequalities but something is more important and that is the freedom of the country and I have no doubt not a shadow of doubt that every political party right left or centre, will be solidly with us in anything which they consider is threatening our freedom and our security.
Question: Very briefly, Prime Minister, finally, you’ve spoken of a need to reassess the relationship with this country. After all, our destinies have been intertwined for something like two three hundred years now. How would you wish to see it reassessed?
The Prime Minister: Firstly to forget the past. I think that there is too much harping on what the relationship was. That relationship snapped with independence and I think it was because in the earlier years we tried to hang on to it that we had a period when there was not such friendship but I think we can now make a friendship on a new basis with a far more rational approach to the different problems of both the countries and what each of us gains by such a friend ship and I think that these is considerable ground for such mutual benefit.
