Member belongs always helps India to be strong. The divisive element that they always introduce dose make India weak and I would request the Hon. Member to approach the problems in the correct spirit. That military strength, that capacity to manufacture all the arms that we require in the three wings of our Armed Forces lies in our economic strength in our industrial growth and above all, in the unity of the people and any single formula or prescription that the Hon. Member may put forward does not answer that question. We have to be strong, we should be strong. This means strength on all these fronts rather than packing up one and trying to toe a particular line.
Then, Sir, he has made three suggestions. He asked: In view of the continued US supply of arms to Pakistan, am I prepared to accept the three suggestions that he has made? I will give reply in one sentence: I am sorry, I cannot accept them.
SHRI KRISHAN KANT: From the whole history of nearly twenty year of American behavior, is it not clear that America is interested in creating a certain balance of power in Asia and that is why all the various actions that America has taken have been anti-Indian? Even now through arms supply to Pakistan they are trying to create a certain balance of power in Asia which policy they are pursing. Are they not aware that besides arms supply, American ships have been transporting soldiers to Bangladesh for genocide? Even though America has said that they are not doing it, our information is that American ships have been utilized for transporting soldiers; not only ships but some of the aero planes have also been utilized. It is not also a fact than between 1962 and 1665,after the India -China war the US give arms to Pakistan, which arms would not be utilized either against China or ageist he soviet Union, but world be used only against India? In 1963 a submarine was give to Pakistan by he United state. But that submarine was useless against the Soviet Union or China which was not operating either in the Arabian Sea or in the Bay of Bengal; it was specifically against India. After the India -China war when we wanted certain letha weapons for use against China, we were not give, not even America rifles were given to us. Does that not show the anti-Indian stand of America?
Sir, certain radar sites were set up in Pakistan and they all confronted India. There was a radar site in Multan and that site was utilized for what purpose? For striking down the plane in which the former Chief Minister of Gujarat, Mr. Balwantrai Mehta, was killed. Then when our Minister for External Affairs wants to Washington, They talked sweetly. The president met him. But they kept him completely in the dark and in a dubious way supplied arms to Pakistan. Does that not show the real intention of the United States of America? They have been functioning in a completely anti-India and unfriendly way to us. It is not time that we told them frankly, all your actions all these years have been anti-India and to help a certain power, which is not to the benefit of India?
Sir, when my friend says that Mr. Nixon is going to China, It is not to see either the Cultural Revolution or the Chinese culture. He is going there because China has now got nuclear bombs, because of the eleventh test that they are performing on their nuclear bomb. It is a hard fact which counts.
