পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৮৩৯

br〉○ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড wanted me to put everything in writing and within a few days, I did that in the form of a book. About the solution; how we can solve the problems of minorities, the first point suggested in this book was; "all possible help should be given to the independent East Bengal movement of the Bengali people." Then again after the Indo-Pakistan war in 1965, I wrote another book; “Independent East Bengal." This book sold like hot-cake among the students of East Bengal. It was banned by Pakistan Government. It was after the Indo-Pakistan conflict that there was a radical transformation in the whole political outlook of the Bengalis in East Bengal. Again in 1967 after the six point decision was taken by the Awami League, I wrote another book not in my own name. I was told by friends to write in a pseudo name and I used that. I request you to allow me this digression only because I want to say that the evolution in Bangladesh is not a mere historical accident. It was inevitable. This explosion was the inevitable result of the internal contradictions of Pakistan itself. That is why I wanted to draw your attention to the fact that although the problems of Bangladesh refugees are so much connected with the national revolution in Bangladesh, but that is not the major point under consideration. I should say that the freedom of Bangladesh by itself is not the whole crux of the problem. What was happened in Bangladesh is a historic and revolutionary event. It has immense revolutionary potentiality to change the socio-political matrixs of the whole of this sub-continents of India Khyber to Kohima. Sir, if Bangladesh's freedom were to become a settled fact, it will bring about a qualitative change in the character of political correlations among the peoples and among the two powers of the divided sub-continent. If you look in to the whole problem of Bangladesh. from this fundamental perspective, then you will realize the importance of it, the momentous character of it, the revolutionary character of it as also the historic call that the millions of Bangladesh martyrs with their blood have given to you, first, to the Indian people and then to humanity at large. That is the reasons why I want to ask whether the Government is alive to this immense revolutionary potentiality that is before us today as generated by the national revolution in Bangladesh. A few days before, the Prime Minister said in the Rajya Sabha that “we will be through hell to meet the situation arising out of the revolution in Bangladesh. Well, the people of India will readily, gladly go through hell and will undergo all sufferings, provided this Government has the these courage, has the gut, has the determination to take positive action, to take firm decision firstly in giving recognition to Bangladesh and thus facilitating the process of completed the national revolution of Bangladesh its thereafter consolidating it. If the Government takes that positive action, I have no doubt that the whole of the Indian people will rise as one man to support the Government, stand behind it and today through all the suffering, even to hell. Two months and a half have passed but what is the attitude of the Government? The people of India are feeling that the Government at the moment is pursuing a policy of drift and dodgery with the issue that is facing Bangladesh today. Therefore, it is our apprehension: yes: we are ready to go through hell, but our country is not ready to go into hell. but to get out of it. By their callousness, I should say, the Government has allowed the situation to develop which was the crisis of Pakistan into a disaster for India.