পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৬৮০

ყy(*8 বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড million people, evacuees from East Bengal have come, of which 6.5 million people happen to be Hindus. When it is stated here in this House by the Government that the Bangladesh question has exposed the hollowness of the two-nation theory, I humbly disagree. In East Bengal there were about 10 million Hindus before partition. Let us take it that to this figure would have been added another 2 million by now. That means in all 12 million Hindus. Now six million of them came out during the partition. And 6.5 million have come out now. The result is that Mr. Yahaya Khan and the rulers of Pakistan have decided to perpetrate the two-nation theory. We are a secular State who believe and have faith in secularism and make all-out effort to ensure that another secular leader like Mr. Mujibur Rahman or his party like the Awami League is installed in Bangladesh. If the movement of Bangladesh fails, it is not Pakistan which is going to be finished. It is India which is going to be finished. I repeat this with all sincerity, with all conviction that Pakistan will remain as a hundred percent Islamic State. The involvement of the Indian Armed Forces will be on both wings. Then the records will show that of the 65 lakh Hindus that have moved over from East Bengal during this holocaust, women of the age-group of 15-25 are negligible. It is a known fact that during this time lakhs of young women are deported from there they are either being placed at the disposal of the Pakistani Armed Forces or sold abroad in the Middle East. These are known facts of life. We, Sir, have the habit of closing our eyes like kabootars and think that all is well with the world. We only specialize in bluffing ourselves. The world studies India's history. The world has made a deep study of the Indian history. We call ourselves a great nation. We may be a most populous nation. SHRIA. D. MANI (Madhya Pradesh): We never said that. SHRI BIJU PATNAIK. We are happy to call ourselves a great nation why do you not admit that? It is a nation, one of the most populous nations, one of the most impoverished nations. Its total striking Power is only 4 million tonnes of steel with 9 million tonnes of capacity. Japan with one-fifth of our population produces 92 million tonnes of steel, without having any iron or coal. This is the measure of our greatness, this is measure of our great Government, this is the measure of our sovereign Parliament, in terms of international politics. We must admit what we are. But we must try grow out of what we are. To-day I am sure Mr. Foreign Minister, you will admit that we are not even a nation to contend with in Asia, leave alone the world. With the direct link of America a China that is in the offing, with the economic union that is being planned of the South-East Asian countries, India will be relegated to the position of even Nepal in another two years. Comparatively, let us see the status of a little country called Israel. That country also is being ruled by a woman, but what a woman. That country has produced a Defence Minister like Dayan who wiped off the so called Arab forces whom we have been pampering all along and who have dropped us like a hot potato in this great issue which is confronting us. That country wiped off the entire air force of Egypt at the crack of dawn and Egypt could never raise its head afterwards. During 1965 in our confrontation