পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭৭১

어8( বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড and unreserved support, in this hour of national crisis, to the national defense efforts. Emergency has been proclaimed and the whole world's eyes are on the people of India. We will be judge to what extent we are able to rise to the occasion and work unitedly with courage and fortitude and with purposefulness to meet the crisis fully and successfully. I believe that in an emergency it is necessary that the party differences, based on division among the political parties, should be sunk and at the Centre a National Government should be formed. It should have representation from different parties, from all political parties and all the political parties combined in a National Government should lead the country to victory in this war. A word about the role of Parliament. Even though a grave emergency is there, it is necessary that Parliament should continue to meet, to be briefed by the Government about the affairs on the borders, the situation prevailing and for the Government to be guided by Parliament about further action that is required to be taken to meet the situation as it arises. Before I conclude, I would like to say that. in a modern war the strength of a nation is not gauged only by the number of guns employed at the frontier or by the number of men under arms, but by the economic power of the nation. The outcome of any armed conflict will depend on how economically strong we are. Therefore, it is of the utmost importance that all ideology should be forgotten; all matters of detail should be forgotten. The only aim before the country should be how to strengthen the country economically, whether in the fields or in the factories, to achieve more and production. It does not matter who produces the goods and in what manner. What matter is that the goods must be produced; more goods and services must be produced whether in the fields or factories. And therefore I would appeal to the Government through you, Sir, to forget the little considerations that have completely shadowed the thinking of the Government in the past but to direct all the energy of the Government and of the people to increase production of all sorts so that a strong economically we could be strong, so that a strong economy could given the necessary and sufficient support to our armed forces and it may lead us to a victories result. The last point that I would like to say is that the people of the border areas very rightly and justly expected of the Government to announce emergency risk insurance immediately so that any destruction due to enemy action or sabotage is borne by the entire people of India and the brunt of it is not borne only by the people who reside on the border areas and have properties there. There is an insistent demand from the people of the border areas for quite some time past and now that the emergency has been declared, I hope that the Government would lose no time in announcing emergency risk insurance as was done some time back when a similar emergency arose in the country. MR. CHAIRMAN; Srdesai. SHRI DEB DATT PURI (Haryana): Sir, this matter has already been voted upon and one or two speeches.............. (Interruptions)