পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৮৮৫

br@ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড and could have been easily defeated at that time. In that case today there would have been a Sovereign Independent Republic of Bangladesh with full authority and there would have been no problem. But we missed the bus at that time. Now we are trying our best move the world conscience. But we have not succeeded. Everybody is selfish. After the broadcast by Yahya khan, I hope our Prime Minister will not allow the name of country to be besmirches like that, be it China, Pakistan or any other power. We have showed our strength during the Pakistan conflict. I hope our government will immediately send our troops on a mission of mercy to stop the genocide and the daily massacre in Bangladesh. We should not be afraid of China and Pakistan whom we defeated in 1965. Then there are millions of brave Patriotic young men among refugees from Bangladesh. We have train these young men and send them to fight their country by giving them arms. I am sure victory shall be ours and then everybody will support us, because nobody supports a coward nation. I, therefore, hope that we shall not be put in the list of cowards. The time has come to act and there is no other way. The Members on the Congress side are also of this opinion. I hope, the whole nation is of this very opinion. Therefore, I wish the Prime Minister to take courage and to announce the decision that we are going to recognize Bangladesh. SHRI M. SATYANARAYAN RAO (Karimnagar): I am very sorry that this Government has miserably failed to do its duty. On 31st March this House had passed a unanimous Resolution asking this Government to act quickly. But it has failed. It has no right to rule this country. One Member was saying because there was no territory or population so we cannot recognize. If that is the position then why then this Government mention Bangladesh instead of East Pakistan. This Government has no business to call it Bangladesh. When it calls Bangladesh then it is its duty to recognize. Sir, only then we act when we are strong. Had we acted quickly. Given military aid or sent our military to Bangladesh then the whole world would have recognized that country. There is a saying: nothing succeeds like success. It is most unfortunate. The Foreign Minister happens to be a Sardar. He must be bold enough. Being a Sardar he could have taken the decision. We must take the decision here and now that we are going to recognize Bangladesh otherwise all the opposition parties are going to give a call to the Indian people not to recognize this Government. I request to Sardar Swaran Singh to recognize Bangladesh immediately otherwise you will be creating so many problems for us. We are going to spend crores of rupees on these people when we are not in a position to feed our own people. Please at least consider this matter and recognize Bangladesh. Not only recognize Bangladesh but send our Army there to rehabilitate the victims of this genocide. THE MINISTER OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS (SHRI SWARAN SINGH): Mr. Chairman, Sir, on an issue like this, this type of statement to say the least does not become the opposition. On an issue like this I do not want to enter into a debate of the type by giving reasons as to why as the present stage it is not possible for us to recognize Bangladesh. We have stated this position quite clearly and I would request the hon. Members that they should also exercise some restrain in a matter like this. So far as international affairs are concerned that is a different matter altogether. But this is an internal matter and we should not cause greater complications in this matter of