decision that she and the Government has taken in recognizing the Government of Bangladesh? I would like to underline the significance of this recognition. For the first time, after the establishment of our Republic, we have taken a most forward step and have shown that our foreign policy is not a academic policy, but it is an active and people of Bangladesh have accepted as a goal of their policy secularism. In other words, the daughter of Shri Jawaharlal Nehru has given a death blow to the two nation theory and the people of Bangladesh have accepted the3 path of belonging to one human race.
Sir, we have also shown that his country of ours w2ityh 547 million people. whom the New York Times has contemptuously described as miserable in an editorial yesterday, can do much more for peace and justice, than great United Nations or the United States which calls for a free world.
Sir, we have stood for justice and I thank Mrs. Gandhi for ensuring that our children and grandchildren will have peace for at least another 25 years and we will not be harassed by the irritations and hostilities of Pakistan. As a Newspaperman, we are not supposed to indulge in hyperbolic phrases. We are critical of the public affairs but I will never conceal my opinion that when the history of these times come to be written, Mrs. Gandhi will be regarded as one of the greatest leaders of the country.
সর্দার নরেন্দ্রর সিং ব্রার (পাঞ্জাব): মাননীয় সভাপতি, আমি দলের পক্ষ হতে এবং ব্যক্তিগতভাবে বাংলাদেশের স্বীকৃতি দানকে অভিনন্দন জানাচ্ছি। প্রথম থেকেই আমাদের বক্তব্য ছিল বাংলাদেশকে স্বীকৃতি দেয়া হোক। এর সংগে সংগে এক দেশ ও এক নেতার তত্ত্বটি মেনে নিয়ে আমি বলতে চাই যে আমরা প্রধানমন্ত্রীর পেছনে আছি। (উর্দু)
On this occasion I also want to congratulate the peo9ple and Government of the Soviet Union for their un-stinted support for the great cause we have taken up. I want to pay my tribute to the countless men and women who have laid down their lives for the cause of the freedom of Bangladesh. Glory to the people of Bangladesh, Glory to the people of India, glory to the freedom fighters of the world. Down with imperialism and down with the military junta.
শ্রী শীলভদ্র ইয়াজী (বিহার): মননীয় সভাপতি, আমি আমার সরকার প্রধানমন্ত্রী এবং বাংলাদেশের প্রধানমন্ত্রী এবং বাংলাদেশের নেতৃবৃন্দকে অল ইণ্ডিয়া ইন্দো-বাংলাদেশ ফ্রেণ্ডশীপ এসোসিয়েশনের পক্ষ থেকে আরো মোবারকবাদ জানাচ্ছি এবং এর সাথে সাথে এই আশা করছি যে বিশ্বের সকল গণতান্ত্রিক ও সামাজতান্ত্রিক দেশসমূহ আমাদের প্রধানমন্ত্রীর অনুসরণে খুব সত্বর বাংলাদেশ সরকারকে স্বীকৃতি দান করবেন। জয় হিন্দু, জয় বাংলদেশ।
THE MINISTER OF STAE IN THE MINISTERY OF WORKS AND HOUSING (SHRI I.K. GUJRAL): It is rather an unusual thing that I am getting up but I would like to share with this house a nostalgic memory that I have. Perhaps I am one of the very few persons-perhaps there is nobody else in this House-that I was present in that Muslim League Session at Lahore in 1940 in 1940 when the Pakistan resolution was adopted and I consider myself lucky that I am witnessing here the dissolution of that theory which was propounded in Lahore.
DR. TRIGUNA SEN (West Bengal): I am perhaps one of the happiest men in this world today. My heart is so full that I do not find any words to express my happiness. I
