পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৭৫

wყ8ჯა বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড these refugees indefinitely, what is going to happen to our economy? Six million people are to be absorbed. SHRI KALYAN ROY: Nine million people. SHIR M. C. CHAGLA: Already there are many unemployed people in our country. We do not give them subsidy. It is a shame. But with regard to these six million people... AN HON. MEMBER: More than six million. About 8 million refugees are there. SHRIM. C. CHAGLA: With regard to these 8 million people, we will have to feed every month, we will have to shoulder the burden of everyone. We will have to clothe everyone and how long can India face this? Sir, with great respect to the Prime Minister, she has been saying and I have yet to see-that these refugees will go back. Will the hon. Minister, in heaven's name tell me how they will go back. How is the Prime Minister going to see that the refugees will go back? She cannot drag them out. You are not dragging them out. SHRI KALYA ROY: After their death, they will go back spiritually. SHRIM. C. CHAGLA: But six million people take some time to die and they will produce some children also. There is no way. I know that except that I am not going to suggest anything about sending these refugees back to Bangladesh. Now, Sir we have to be strong. We forget that we are a great nation. We should be one of the big powers. But we act as if we are a second power. SHRI KALYAN ROY: We are. SHRIM. C.CHAGLA: I do not agree with that. I do not think so. Our country is the second largest in the world with a large population, with a great history. Why should we be a second class nation? But, Sir, we make ourselves so. I tell you why. We never take the initiative. If a problem arises, we first think what China will do. We think what Pakistan will do, how Russia will act... AN HON. MEMBER: ...... how Egypt will react. SHRI M. C. CHAGLA: Yes, we think how Egypt will react. But I want to know whether Pakistan ever thinks how India will react. In this House also what has been troubling the Government, my hon. friend may say it or not, but actually what has been troubling them is they are waiting for somebody to recognize it, they are waiting for Russia to do it for us. Why should Russia do it for us? Why should e want for Russia, Why should we wait for anybody? Sir, in the past, on great many occasions, when Shri Jawaharlal Nehru was the Prime Minister, he has given the lead to Asia in the world, he has spoken with a voice which has been listened to by the whole world. In every case when liberty was endangered where there was political corruption in the sense that certain important principles were violated, when there was tyranny, when there was injustice, he stood up, he raised his voice-not waiting to see what others will say—and his was the first voice and that voice was listened to and followed by whole Asia.