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have not done so. Before I do that however, I would like to place before the Honorable the Prime Minister the four principles which hang together and for which we can support the One-Unit Scheme. If any of these principles are destroyed, you destroy the support to your Scheme. These principles are: Firstly the integration of West Pakistan-that integration can be in various forms, it does not necessarily mean unification. You can have unification, you can have zonal sub-federations, or you can even bring some provinces together and instead of having ten or eleven provinces, you may have three or four provinces just as suits your administrative convenience keeping in view the views of the people whom I would request you to consult. Secondly, then, Sir, Parity between East and West Pakistan. This is the important part of the principle. Thirdly, division of the offices of the Governor-General and the Prime Minister between East and West Pakistan which forms a principle of that parity, because the principle of that parity is again a question of division of powers. The principle of that parity is: no domination by one over the other. The principle of that parity is: Co-operation between the two wings. Consequently this question of the division of powers between East and West Pakistan is of a fundamental importance. It is a question which requires considerable thought. It must be said that there was a particular time, as you know, it has been said in the papers, when the matter was raised, I said what does it matter I am prepared to give in-that was a personal matter; the Honourable Prime Minister knows it perfectly well that if you ask my coat over here I shall hand it over to you, with all that it contains—but the question here is that of principle, Sir. And, that principle was thrashed out-there is no” doubt about it—that it was ultimately before you come to your conclusions and decisions, it was told, it was brought home to you that the question of division of power between East and West Pakistan was fundamental and if there was a Governor-General who came from West Pakistan, it was necessary to a Prime Minister of East Pakistan, and consequently inasmuch as this Governor General was adopted by West Pakistan-let there be no mistake regarding that—I cannot understand why your Protagonists go round and try to mislead the people? I have said that over and over again in this House, I have said that over and over again in public and it is not a Cabinet Secret, Mr. Prime Minister, because this question, you will agree with me, was never raised in the Cabinet, it was outside the Cabinet, and, therefore, it was understood that there should be a Prime Minister from Bengal. You had to make your own choice, if you wanted to work with a United Front. there was the ex-Prime Minister Mohammad Ali who had delivered the United Front bound hand and foot, who told you that the United Front led by Mr. Fazlul Haque was prepared to accept all your conditions blindfold. You could have had him. No, you get rid of him. Probably, at that moment, you had some other ideas in your sub-conscious mind. Then, later on you changed those ideas and for the sake of principle which thereafter, as I said, I do not know something was enunciated which was so horrific that I quaver before it that if this is going to be the principle underlying your administration, then God help us! You should not forget that it is not a thing that I shall leave untold and unsaid in this connection. So, the forth principle also thereafter was: regional or zonal autonomy. All these principles hang together. You have destroyed on principle and with that you have destroyed the principle of parity. The main basis of the unification of Pakistan, viz., that we as equal partners will work together, has been destroyed by you. Therefore, Sir,