পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৬০৯

○br○ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড Visited the United Stated twice when he has been the Ambassador and on all accounts he is doing good work and he is putting across Government of India's view point in proper manner, in an effective manner. And I would appeal to the honorable Member not to indulge in this type of criticism and in the process weaken our instruments through whom we want to put across our viewpoints. It is quite easy for anybody to criticize an Ambassador............... SHRIBHUPESH GUPTA: Can you not find another person to replace him? SARDAR SWARAN SINGH:...and in this particular case even the facts on which he is relying are not quite correct. He talks of many years whereas Mr. Jha went there only about a year ago and he was before that Governor of the Reserve Bank. During this period both on the economic side and on the political side he has done good work and I would strongly reject as completely unfounded the insinuations that have been lunched against one of our distinguished Ambassadors...... SHRIBHUPESH GUPTA: He is a stooge, a notorious imperialist stooge. SARDAR SWARAN SINGH: If he wants me to use that type of language, I will hesitate to use that. I would say that if we come to stooges, we do not know where we end. SHRI BHUPESH GUPTA: Sir, let him tell me who the stooge is. Let him have the courage to say that. I say that. I say Mr. L. k. Jha has been a stooge of Britain and America and you have put him as our Ambassador in America. SHRIPITAMBER DAS (Uttar Pradesh): This is the unkindest cut fall. SARDAR SWARAN SINGH: About the last question in which he has said that there should be a parliamentary commission to go into this aspect of externals affairs, I do not think that parliamentary commissions should be unnecessarily bothered with something which is essentially an administrative matter and they should depend upon those Minister who are responsible to Parliament to carry out the wishes of Parliament. SHRI LAL K. ADVANI (Delhi): So far as United States Government is concerned, not all the facile explanations which have been offered now can conceal this fact- Mr. Bhupesh Gupta may call it abetment and may insist on that word; there can be so many words for it-this hard fact that by giving or selling these shiploads of arms to Pakistan at this time the Nixon Government has been guilty of collaborating with the Yahya Khan regime in perpetrating genocide in Bangladesh and which stands condemned before the bar of world opinion on this account. There is no doubt about it. But what I am really surprised at is the abysmal failure of our own mission in Washington to know about this episode. After all there is no justification for this situation that a ship leaves the U.S. shores on the 8th May and we are absolutely ignorant about it till the 23th June and that too only when the New York Times reports about it that we come to know of it. I have nothing to say about Ambassador L.K. Jha. I do not know about him, and what the Minister has said about him and his abilities may be perfectly correct. But I presume and suppose that one of the primary functions of a mission abroad to be posted about all matters and all information that is vital to our interests.