something here and subtracting something there? They did. Even then they failed. They took long eight years and failed in the end. They failed to give the country a constitution. They failed not because they lacked a sincere desire. No, Sir. They had sincere desire to frame a constitution. They were actuated by good motive and possessed all the anxiety that was, needed and yet they failed. They failed because they lacked imagination.
we found that our leaders were failing to give the country a constitution whereas our twin brother, the elder brother, rather the younger brother-India-had given a constitution to the country (with so great a territory in their possession and with so many people inhabiting that country-India is practically a multi-nation country), even though we were not members of that Constituent Assembly, we the lovers of Pakistan, the patriots who fought for Pakistan, who were soldiers of Pakistan and who were lieutenants' of the Quaid-i-Azam, we put our heads together and tried our very best to help the leaders give a 'constitution to the country. And what was that? We reminded them to revert to the Lahore Resolution: the sheet-anchor of Pakistan Movement. We asked them to follow the heritage of Quaid-i-Azam and not to ignore his last testament. We said: “Do not depart from those principles. If you do, you will go on failing to give the country a Constitution. And this did happen. Now, that we have come here in a new Constituent Assembly we are saying the same thing: take the geographical position into consideration because that is the principal factor. The basis of Pakistan will have to be looked into far more in the economics of the country than in the political questions that confront it. The difficulties that are faced by the framers of the Constitution are more economic than political.
Sir, the principle of modern democracy is based more upon the economics of a country than its politics. The well-established axiom of economics is: “Income of one is the expenditure of another." Extending this theory to political economics you will find that the expenditure of the Government is the income of the people; and the income of the Government is the expenditure of the people. That is the principle on which Democracies—whether republican or monarchical, federal or unitary-are functioning.
Sir, by that standard what do we find in Pakistan? Due to this geographical anomaly money does not circulate in its two wings. The money that is brought from East Pakistan never goes back to East Pakistan. This is natural economics. You cannot help it; I cannot help it. Even if I was the Prime Minister of this country I could not help this situation and make the money circulate. If I were the Finance Minister even then I could not have solved the issue ignoring the geography of the country. It does stand in the way. Money will never circulate. Money is collected through Government agencies but it is not spentthe whole of it-through Government agencies. Sir, at a glance you will find that the money that is coming from East Pakistan is being spent either in your salary or on the salary of the Speaker, including your chaprassi and the Honourable Ministers, including. Mr. Chundrigar and of High Court Judges, Federal Court Judges including their chaprassi Our Bengali Ministers including Mr. Hamidul Huq Choudhury and my reverend friend, Mr. K.K. Dutta, are getting salaries. But all this money is being spent in Western Pakistan and you should not forget that East Pakistan is contributing in equal proportion to the federal structure and its economics. This is geography!
