neighboring country with which we have cultural bondage, with which we have racial bondage, will come forward with assistance. Mr. Chairman, if Bangladesh freedom fighter, if any freedom fighter of Bangladesh now feels that the Government of India by its dilly-dallying policy has deliberately forsaken its commitment, what is strange about it? Mr. Chairman, again, I repeat that the Government of Indian is suffering from indecision. They are prisoners of indecision, and sometimes they are taking very wrong decisions. They say that these evacuees will go back if the normal situation is restored. I did not know how this normal situation will come back, how these people will go back. Is it a not fit case for the Government of India to place before the committee of nations the question of these seventy lakh refugees? We are passing Budgets and Supplementary Demands. But what have we done for the refugees, the evacuees of Bangladesh? The basic question remains. If these people have come to country, it is not my fault. They have come to this border not because of our fault. Can we not speak in unmistakable terms, can we not speak to the military rulers of Pakistan that if they propose to send refugees with the idea of destroying our economy, we shall not remain a silent spectator? We must rise to the occasion. Cannot the Government speak in terms?
Mr. Chairman, Sir I am a simple man. I am a very common man. My language may be broken and my voice may be feeble. But why should Government of India speak in a feeble voice and why should the Government of India speak in broken language, in a half-hearted language? Why they cannot speak in unmistakable terms? Since the very day of the Nehru-Liaqat Ali Pact the Government of Pakistan is flouting all sorts of international agreements.
They are perpetrating genocide. They are committing brutalities against the civilian people. At first, they did it on the Hindu population living there. Now they are doing it indiscriminately on Hindus and Muslims. Each and every Bengali is a victim of the military junta's barbarous atrocities in Pakistan. Therefore, Sir, we are disappointed. We feel extremely disappointed. We have doubts that they may forsake their commitment. We are drifting from the commitment that we have made. The hon. Foreign Minister may deny it. He may say that perhaps the Government of India will do nothing. When the emotional stage is over, the people who are now emotionally surcharged may forget it. Mr. Chairman if it continues for days together, for months together, psychologically one is bound to forget it. Perhaps the Government of India is waiting for that moment. As soon as the emotional stage is over, as soon as the people forget it the Government will cast its commitment to the winds. If the Government of India thinks so, if that is what is in the mind of the Government of India. Mr. Chairman, Sir, as a very ordinary, common citizen of the country. I can tell you and through you, this Government, that they are living in a fool's paradise. What is happening in Bangladesh and what is happening in West Bengal and other eastern parts of the country will have a serious repercussion on the economy and politics of this country. We cannot let them loose. We cannot allow them to forget it, we must take a stand and that stand should be clear and it should be clear and it should be spoken in unmistakable terms, in unambiguous terms. Mr. Chairman, Sir, I do not understand what the Government of India will do with this
