‘সারা বিশ্বের সেরা ভারত আমাদের, আমরা বুলবুল, এটি কানন আমাদের। আমরা সেই ভারত গড়তে চাই। বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা সেই ভারত গড়ার প্রথম সোপান। এজন্য আমাদের লক্ষ্য আমাদেরকে সর্বদা মনে রাখতে হবে। এই লক্ষ্য অর্জনে, ভারত ও পাকিস্তানের একত্রীকরণের লক্ষ্যকে অব্যর্থ রাখতে হবে। ১৯৪৭ সালের ১৪-১৫ জুন তারিখে এ, আই, সি, সি (অল ইণ্ডিয়া কংগ্রেস কনফারেন্স) দিল্লীর বৈঠকে কংগ্রেস যে প্রস্তাব গ্রহন করেছিল সেটি আবার স্মরণ করুন। দ্বিজাতিতত্ত্ব চিরতরে নির্মূল হয়ে যাবে। দ্বিজাতিত্ত্ব নির্মূল হতে চলেছে, বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতার সংগে সংগে এই তত্ত্বের বিলুপ্তি ঘটেছে। এর জন্য মুজিবর রহমানকে যতই ধন্যবাদ জানান হোক তা নগণ্য হবে।...........
MR, CHAIRMAN: Yes now the CPM. Who will speak? Yes, Mr. Sanyal.
SHRI SASANKA SHEKHAR SANYAL (West Bengal): Mr. Chairman from this side I join the felicitations and congratulations showered upon the Prime Minister and through the Prime Minister I extend all our respect to those who are fighting. those fighting people in our country and in Bangladesh, who have already laid down their lives and who are now prepared to down their lives at any moment.
Sir, excuse me for a little digression, Sir, in 1947, when dear Indiraji's father was the interim Prime Minister, I am was a humble back-bencher in the Congress benches in the Central Legislature when partition was accepted and conceded Sir. I went to the Bhangi Colony to see Mahatma Gandhi, I laid down my 'Khadar' cloth there, came back weeping my 'chadhar' and 'Khadar' coat, saying that the Congress had committed a fraud at the top in Delhi and at the bottom in my Bengal.
Sir, thereafter I was not a very happy man. But, today I thank myself, I congratulate myself that I am living today to see that the Pakistan is now dead. If there is anything now, it is the ghost of Pakistan and if any going is going to be haunted by that ghost, it is neither India nor Bangladesh nor any part of the other Pakistan, but it is the recalcitrant members of the U.N. Council and Assembly. Let them be haunted and haunted. Sir. our freedom will grow from Precedent to Precedent, from precedent, from Bangladesh to Bangladesh and I would expect only this from dear Indiraji-her father was my colleague and her grandfather was my colleague and we worked together-that she should go on from stride to stride and let her see that the toiling people on all sides of the subcontinent really become happy under the flag which is now flashing and which is now waving and which is now flying over the house of Mrs. Indira Gandhi.
SHRI THILLAI VILLALAN (Tamil Nadu): On this day of rejoicing and jubilation, I join the feelings expressed by the leaders of different parties. I am taking this opportunity to congratulate our Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi (Interruptions). She has proved that she is the greatest statesman, and at the same time, the greatest administrator in this world. (Interruptions) By recognizing Bangladesh at the opportune time as she as often stated in this House.
Sir, in the religious field we heard that Shakti is superior and more powerful than Sivan. Here in the political field also, she has proved that Shakti is supreme—(Interruption). Further, Sir, I want to say in this connection that the hand that rocks the cradle now rocks the cradle of freedom in Bangladesh— (Interruption). With this hold
