পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭০৩

&ᎸᏄ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড able to support and help Bangladesh. This is happening day after day. If there is any objectivity or any judgment based on facts, I want to tell the Foreign Minister that the taste of the pudding is in the eating I want to ask him: Is our policy yielding the result which we want? If not, it is no use going on saying that you have good intentions. It is said in the Bible also, and not in an ironical since, that the path of heaven is also paved with food intentions. The question is this: What is that actual, Concrete, total result of this policy? What is the total result after four months? Our aim is to strengthen India, strengthen the freedom fighters for Bangladesh to fight Pakistan, to defeat the regime and to establish a free government of Bangladesh, which is the only way on the basis of which the refugees will go back. And, if the reply is that we are not in a position to do it and then would be where we were in the earlier period. That is why a distinctly new thinking is needed; that is why courageous steps must be taken; and that is precisely why we have come to a stage where the recognition of the Bangladesh Government has become a vital issue, has become something which you cannot bypass. Sir, this Government has been saying all the time in the past that this issue is between the people of Bangladesh and the rulers of Pakistan and that this is not an Indo-Pak issue. Sir, I want to ask this Government and I want to ask the Foreign Minister to give me a very clear reply. Who are the people of Bangladesh? Are they like the Indian Brahma' which is supposed to be here and there, but which has no shape, no form, Nirakar Niguna"? The People of Bangladesh are a corporate reality, and it can have only one meaning and that is the elected representatives of the People who have formed a Government of Bangladesh. The Government of Bangladesh means the people of Bangladesh and if we do not say so clearly then we will be sinking deeper and deeper into the mire, Sir what is the latest conspiracy of the United States and the Pakistani rulers? The latest conspiracy is, not be sure, but defect, no overnight, but step by step, to compel this government to come to a position when it will be said that the issue is between India and Pakistan. We have been protesting against it. This is not an Indo-Pak issue; it is an issue of the people of Bangladesh and Pakistan. But you have been driven to it and you are being driven to it more and more. The only thing is to declare to the whole world that we recognize this Bangladesh Government. We have got to recognize it. We have to say that no other settlement will be acceptable to this country expecting the one which is arrived at between Mujiber Rahman, the Awami League leaders and Pakistani rulers. Unless you make it absolutely clear, our position is going to worsen from day to day. Sir I can tell you other things; I can tell you other facts. In this very parliament we have unanimously passed a resulting to support the struggle. That was done unanimously. In a subsequent statement in this very Parliament, the Prime Minister also said that we cannot allow the Pakistani rulers to settle their internal problems at the cost of India and on the Indian soil. Subsequently, she said that India would have to pass through a hellfire if we have to settle this question. It was also said later on that if the international community does not take cognizance of the political aspect of this question, which is the basic aspect, India will be compelled to take unilateral action. This was stated in the House, that India will have to take unilateral action. But nobody knows what is meant by this unilateral action. I do not say that we want the armed forces of India to