offer my sincere-most congratulations to our leader. I knew that members of all the parties were pressing the Prime Minister to recognize Bangladesh from the beginning. Also people from outside were putting pressure on her but she knows that from the beginning I was requesting her not recognize at that moment because I felt that the young men and the peasantry of Bangladesh wanted to fight their won battle to first know problems then it would be difficult for them to tackle. I urged upon her that i have seen the boys and how they were fighting. I have seen the peasantry how they were training their boys and youngsters to fight for their freedom. I can tell hundreds of stories about their gallantry, their enthusiasm etc. So I requested the Prime Minister not to recognize them but to help them to win their own freedom I said: The time will come when you will be surprised when you will see that they are capable of maintaining their own freedman only then you should recognize the. I had my full faith in the leadership of the Prime Minister living today. It is very easy to be a politician. The politicians from all the parties were pressing her hard to recognize. It is early to be a politician but difficult to be a statesmen. I have read the history and the biographies of many statesmen but I have never seen a statesman like the present Prime Minister. I am really very happy today. I congratulate her for this decision but I must want to remind the Members of this IIouse inside Bangladesh now. Thousands of people have been killed, lakhs of women have been raped, houses have been burni and so many things have been done inside that it will take a long time for them to again rebuild. We have to held them as a friendly brother. We have heard from our Prime Minister that want to that Government has said that they follow the objectives of democratic secularism and so on. It is not only the objectives, it is not only that want that pattern I can say from examples how they practice. I had been to a village in the mountains night in groups. They had a small function and they had invited me because I was instrumental in starting that training came. They had boys who recited from Quran. There was another who recited from Bhagwad Gita.
It was in such beautiful Sanskrit. Later on I asked him where you learned Sanskrit and what is our name. IIc said, Nurul Islam I said are you a Muslim and he replied I am a Bengali. He protested being called Hindu or Muslim. You will be surprised how the villagers behave, the peasantry behaves. A villager came with boy of 14 years. He said. Sen Sahib, aapk naam suna: You take this boy and give him training so that he can go back and kill a Khan. And he himself wanted to go away and I asked him, why are you going He said I am going so that one of their bullets will be spent on me and thus I can save the life of another Young man. The whole people there are enthused. How do they fight Bare-bodied, without any shoes, with only rice to eat and with rifle on their shoulders. We have seen many boys coming from there wit6h bullet wounds asking for a doctor and asking to be bandaged as soon as possible so that they could get inspiration. At the same time I can tell you today; there is no harm because we have recognized it our Jawans military officers who had the opportunity to mix with them said, we are inspired
