পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৮৮০

brQ8 বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড Finally, I repeat that this debate is on a Private Members Motion. I hope the Minister for Parliamentary Affairs who is the chief whip of the ruling party would think it right not to put the whips on. The present issue is a matter wherein members should exercise their conscience and allow their votes be cast accordingly. This is far too important a matter to be ruled by party decisions alone. There is nothing lost, because Government is not going to fall even if this motion is carried. So, I appeal to Government not to put the whips on. Let there be a free vote so that the world might know what people in India think. Let our friends opposite belong to the class of people about whom a seventeenth century philosopher said: "Ignorance leadeth a man into a party; Shame preventeth him from leaving it." Let that not be the position. SHRI INDRAI IT GUPTA: Not only ignorance. SHRI KRISHNA MENON: Therefore, I hope, in this Parliament, with its traditions, it is possible on an occasion of this kind, where the vote is only a recommendation, it may express its will unhampered by a whip. I do hope that whips will not be put on and a free vote will be allowed. That would itself be a proclamation of the support of our democracy. SHRI PRIYA RANJAN DAS MUNSI (Calcutta South): The discussion on the resolution on Bangladesh has already reached a mature stage after the expression of views by many Members of the House. Many peculiar ideas also have been expressed by Members of our party and also by Members from the other side. But I do not like to go into the details of those ideas. I would like to express my views on two main aspects. The Government of India have already denounced the military junta and the military government headed by Yahya Khan. Thereby we have shown enough courage and to the world that we are not relying on any atomic power or military power but on the power of humanity. If we have had the courage and capacity to denounce and condemn the action of Yahya Khan Junta on the patriotic people of Bangla Desh and we have also had the capacity to denounce the Nixon Government for the arms shipments that they have made to Pakistan. have surely we must have the courage based on humanity and we must have the capacity immediately to recognize or accept Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as the unquestioned leader of Bangla Desh and the head of government of the people of Bangla Desh. Many Members have somewhat tried to confuse the issue. I have been seeing this for a long time. Many members have urged the sitting of the criteria of international law first so that we may decide whether it is fit and whether the time has matured to recognize Bangla Desh or not. I do not know why we should go in for those criteria. So far as I am concerned, I submit that democracy stands only on the people's verdict or the verdict of the electorate and on the choice of the representatives of the people by the people. 98 percent of the representatives of the people of Bangla Desh have been returned in the elections not because of any favor of Yahya Khan or any other source of international