| শিরোনাম | সূত্র | তারিখ |
|---|---|---|
| “আমরা আমাদের জাতীয় স্বার্থে যা ভালো তাই করবো”-দিল্লীতে প্রধানমন্ত্রী ইন্দিরা গান্ধীর ঘোষণা | দি স্টেটসম্যান | ২ ডিসেম্বর, ১৯৭১ |
WE WILL DO WHAT IS BEST IN OUR NATINAL INTEREST:
MRS. GANDHI
NEW DELHI, Dec. 2.-The Prime Minister, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, declared here today that it did not worry India at all as to who called her aggressor when she had not committed any aggression, reports PTI. Making an obvious reference to the latest newspaper comments from London that Britain might describe India again as an aggressor, Mrs. Gandhi said: “Times have changed during the last five years. If any country thinks that by calling us aggressor it can pressurize us to forget our national interests then that country is living in its own fool’s paradise and it is welcome to that”. Mrs. Gandhi was addressing the Congress workers of Delhi who had assembled at her residence this morning to express their solidarity in this time of national emergency.
Mrs. Gandhi said: “The times have passed when any nation sitting three or four thousand miles away could give orders to Indians on the basis of their color superiority to do as they wished. India has changed and she was no more a country of natives.
“Today we will do what is best in our national interests and not what these so-called big nations would like us to do. We value their friendship, help and aid but we cannot forsake the country’s territorial integrity and sovereignty”.
Referring to Britain Mrs. Gandhi said that during the 1965 Indo-Pak conflict, Britain had made the mistake of calling India an aggressor “But now they should see for themselves the facts, sequence of events, the happenings in Bangladesh and situation on the Indo-Pak borders”.
"My only expectation from Britain is that it would take an objective view of the situation,” she added.
Referring to Pakistan’s efforts to get U.N. observers in East Bengal, Mrs. Gandhi said she did not know what useful purpose these observers could serve in the present situation.
A large number of foreign dignitaries legislators of various countries, U.S. Senators, relief teams. Independent organizations. Ministers and others have visited the border of East Bengal with West Bengal and have witnessed the plight of the refugees. They have also seen the results of the reign of terror unleashed by the Pakistani Army on the people of Bangladesh but what had happened? “Has it solved the problem of Bangladesh? Has any of these big nations asked Pakistan to stop this genocide of the people of Bangladesh? No, they will not do it.”
The problem of Bangladesh, she said, could be solved only by asking the Pakistani Army to vacate Bangladesh so that these millions of people had left heir homes and hearths could go back and pursue their life peacefully.
