that is going to be on the pattern of Soviet Russia, we have got to reconsider our position. Do it by all means; we will also consider our position. Let us both start considering our position in this House. Let us not go on the basis on which we actually came into this House. Let us completely detach ourselves from other considerations and from another kind of basis on which we shall have to frame the Constitution. So, you know very well, Sir, this 21-point programme is an article of faith with the people of East Pakistan, but these other people have no regard for it and they say that it is not workable. That is their contempt towards Bengal. Even if we talk in Bengali in the lobby they deride at us and say:
Kya yeh cheeni zaban hai;
Kalian Se lae yeh zaban, bhai.
(Is this Chinese? Whence did you bring it, brother?)
As if we have no right to talk our language; that is the attitude. This is the frame of mind that precludes the possibilities of attaining unity between East and West Pakistan. Well, Sir, if I am sincere, I have got to be sincere from tomorrow because I cannot work with you in that frame of mind. If you want that we should be sincere towards you, you must also have the reciprocity of being sincere towards us. It cannot be one-sided or exparte. What have we been doing? Maulana Bhashani, our reverend leader, said in London “if the people of West Pakistan give their verdict in favor of the one-Unit scheme, then there will be not a single voice against it. I tell you not a single word of protest will come from East Bengal. The emphasis has been laid on the will of the people"; it is the will of the people they have to find out; it is the will of the people on which everything should be done. Now, Sir, things were not clear for so many days. After Sardar Rashid has spoken, the necessity of sending this Bill for eliciting public opinion has become all the more important.. You cannot avoid it now, in spite of the fact that Mr. Daultana has told so many things in a beautiful way of expression-all these arguments were useless and not at all convincing...
Sir, you know, one of the arguments that have been advanced by Mr. Daultana and others also is that the germ of provincialism will be completely rooted out after the integration of all the provinces of West Pakistan into one unit. Sir, before we were not accustomed with to this word of provincialism. We never knew what the word “Provincialism” was, what was its meaning? It was first introduced and exported to East Pakistan from outside. A bogie of Provincialism was raised. When I demand my things, and demand my legitimate rights, you say “you are provincialist”. I say, “I am”. This is exactly following the Congress People. They actually started the bogie of communalism whenever the question of demand of seats was raised. They always said that you will get these seats by your efficiency alone. Exactly in the same way the poison of provincialism has been spread. Sir, the attitude of the people of East Pakistan is to live and let others live. It is a question of self-determination of East Bengal has come out of the leaders of West Pakistan, the leaders of Central Government. We know this since our arrival here in Karachi. Sir, I have come to know from the highest quarter, from responsible quarters and a very reliable quarter that these leaders of the Central Government who think that
