Indian press alone, not by the Indian politicians alone but it has been admitted by almost all foreign diplomats and by many foreign parliamentary delegations, and foreign journalists who have visited Bangladesh that practically 80 per cent of the territory of Bangladesh inhabited by 75 million people of Bangladesh is under the actual control of the liberation army while the troops of the Pakistan Army are occupying only certain cantonments and certain towns and cities where they are perpetrating all kinds of atrocities on the civilian population. The civil administration is practically run by the sovereign democratic Government of Bangladesh headed by Mujibur Rahman under the chairmanship of Mr. Nazrul Islam.
Therefore, I do not know what prevents the Government of India from giving recognition to the Sovereign Democratic Republic of Bangladesh unilaterally. Are we afraid of the Gobbelsian propaganda of Pakistan? Are we afraid that if we take action to recognize the Sovereign democratic Republic of Bangladesh unilaterally world opinion will go against us? I do not find any reason why the Government of India should be so shaky should be so hesitant, should not speak in unmistakable terms. The Government of India should take a decision not keeping their eyes towards other countries not looking to the Gobbelsian propaganda by the military junta ruling Pakistan.
There has been an attempt to show that what is happening in Bangladesh is the creation of India. Pakistan did that I past. They are doing it in the present and they will do it in the future. You can not stop it .You cannot stop the Goebbelsian propaganda machinery of Pakistan, but what are the facts? Mujibur Rahman himself admitted, when he gave evidence in the Agortola conspiracy case, that it is Mujibur Rahman who was the first signatory for the condemning Indian aggression in 1965 and that communiqué was issued by the Governor of the then East Bengali. Therefore, there is no point in saying that what is happening in Bangladesh is the creation of India. Pakistan many say it and some of the came-followers of Pakistan may believe it but the bulk of the world community and most of the nations will not believe it. They know that Mujibur Rahman’s aims are fixed by the Awami League that the election was fought on that programme and they get the massive mandate of the people of Bangladesh. That is not the certain of India. That is not the creation of Indian Government or of the people here. It is essentially a movement created by the people o Bangladesh. It is essentially a movement which has its origin in the socio-economic conditions of Bangladesh. If we go through the six-point programme on which they fought there election, on which they got massive support from the people, we will find that in the six-point programme there is nothing which is pro-India. In six-point programme on which they got their massive mandate from the 75 million people of Bangladesh there is not a single word which ca be interpreted, which can be accepted as pro-India. These people are not doing anything in favour of India. These people are not doing anything on being instigated by India. The six-point programme is entirely based on the socio-economic problems of Bangladesh. They want to have autonomy. They want to have autonomy. They want to have the right of self-determination. They want to get themselves freed from their economic exploitation. They want to have control over foreign trade. They want to have their own economic rehabilitation. They want to fight out against the exploitation committed by a small section of the West Pakistan people by keeping political power in West Pakistan. They want to have cultural emancipation. Is it wrong? Has it not been
