পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭৭৭

Գ(t Տ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড construed as intervention, has lost significance. The people of Bangla Desh battling for their very existence and the people of India fighting to defeat aggression now find themselves parties in the same cause. I am glad to inform the House that the light of the existing situation and in response to the repeated requests of the Government of Bangla Desh, the Government of India have after the most careful consideration, decided to grant recognition to the GANA PRAJATANTRI Bangladesh. It is our hope that with the passage of time more nations will grant recognition and that the GANA PRAJATANTRI Bangladesh will soon form part of the family of nations. Our thoughts at this moment are with the father of this new State Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. I am sure that this House would wish me to convey to their Excellencies the Acting President of Bangla Desh and the Prime Minister and to their colleagues our greetings and warm felicitations. I am placing on the Table of the House copies of the communication which we have received from the Government of Bangla Desh. Hon'ble Members will be glad to know that the Government of Bangla Desh have proclaimed their basic principle of State policy to be democracy, socialism, secularism and the establishment of an egalitarian society in which there would be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, sex or creed. In regard to foreign relations, the Bangla Desh Government have expressed their determination to follow a policy of non-alignment, peaceful coexistence and opposition to colonialism, racialism and imperialism in all its manifestations. These are the ideals to which India also is dedicated. The Bangla Desh Government have reiterated their anxiety to organize the expeditious return of their citizens who have found temporary refuse in our country, and to restore their lands and belongings to them. We shall naturally help in every way in these arrangements. I am confident that in future the Government and the peoples of India and Bangla Desh, who share common ideals and sacrifices, will forge a relationship based on the principles of mutual respect of each others' sovereignty and territorial integrity, noninterference in internal affairs equally and mutual benefit. Thus working together for freedom and democracy, we shall set an example of good neighborliness which alone can ensure peace, stability and progress in this region. Our good wishes to Bangla Desh. 11 a.m. THE LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION (SHRI M.S. GURUPADASWAMY): Sir, I look at the statement of the Prime Minister as the Magna Carta of free Bangla Desh. It is the most historic and momentous statement of this year and also of the decade, and this statement ahs got the great potentiality of recreating and refashioning the future destiny of the entire sub-continent. Sir naturally my hearty melts on this occasion, and I have no hesitation in saying that Shrimati Indira Gandhi has emerged in my view for the first time as the living Joan of Arc of the sub-Continent, Joan of Arc suffered death and achieved