Constitution SRAVANA 23, 1883 (SAKA) (Tenth 2088 Amendment) Bill that we should have added Goa, Some little time ago, probably some Deman and Diu etc. These amend- English Methodist missionaries who ments represent the laudable wishes were working there came out and they and ambitions of some hon. Members, gave a ghastly picture of what they btl t they do not represent the facts. had s~en. This was the first time that We are dealing with certain facts tacts from reliable authorities carne which happened in Dadra and Nagar out. Even so, very little is known yet, Reveli. Obviously that situation is but what is known is enough to con- different from the situation of Goa, demn the Portuguese authorities there Daman and Diu, because these places and the Portuguese Government com- are still under the occupation of pletely. I do not think it is going to the Portuguese Government, and be possible for the Portuguese Gov- for us to declare them now ernment to continue there for long, would not be in consonance with and all our sympathies-the sympa- facts. As it is, We say that from the thies of this House and of our people 11th August this te-rritory will form in this country-necessarily go out to part of the Indian Union. But that is the people of Angola. not so in respect of the other territo- ries on the 11th August, because they I need not say much about Goa. It do not form part of the Indian Union. would be absurd for me to s~y that It is our wish and our desire, which I the freedom of Gaa should depend on have no doubt, will be fulfilled that wh,t happens in Africa. That would thc<3e other territories including es- be wrong and not very creditable to pecially Goa should come into the us, that we should depend on other Indian Union. But as I just said, the events in other continents for Goa to coming in of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, be free and to join the Indian Union. is a happy augury and a presage ot But the fact is that it is not a question the future. ot dependence, that in these matters one has to consider the entire picture I do not think I need say much because one thing affects another, and about this matter, but as we are deal- there is no doubt that the situation ing with this small relic of the old that has arisen in Africa has a certain Portuguese Empire, it is well to re- connection with, and effect on, the member the odd fact that the Portu- situation in Goa. Whatever happens ge,c Empire is the biggest empire, in Goa will ultimately be, of course, possibly the worst to~but the big- beca use of the people of Goa or the gest also--that exists today in this age Government of India; these ar" the' of the liqttidation of imperialism and two authorities that function, that can COlon"falism. It is an odd fact that function. and each will .no doubt in whpn great and more powerful em- its own way take action when the pires havc givcn way very largely, the time is ripe for it or considered ready Portugu"sc Empire should continue. tor it. It is. of course, in a bad way today and in its major territories in Africa, in Angola, the situation has been pecu- So this Bill I am presenting to this liarly hl)rrible and painful. and pro- House for its consideration is a simple bably even the past records of impe- one which, I have no doubt, every rialist domination will not give us an Member of the House will accept as example of what is happening now in it .is. because we cannot add other Angola. I have no doubt in my mind places to it; it has no meaning, it is that in Angola. and certainly, I think, not factual, it is not correct. We can- also in other Portuguese domains like not be putting in things which are Mozambique etc. the Portuguese Em- absolutely, on the faCe of them. in- pire is doomed. correct. just to express our wishes. We mav express them in some Unfortunately, we do not get many other form, if you like, but not facts about the Angola situation be- in this Bill amending the Constitution. cause nobody is allowed to go there. Our Constitution cannot be treated in 83HAi) LSD-8. Constitution AUGUST 14, 1961 (Tenth Amendment) Bill [Shri Jawaharlal Nehru] this casual and light way as to pUi in We had resources, and our numberS' our wishes for the future in it. were large enough to put up a quarrel or struggle for independence. But I submit, therefore, that on this oc- these smal! enclaves managed to do it casion because it represents for the of their own, and they got rid of the first time, the form-legal and consti- yoke of slavery. So, they really de- tutional--of the removal of a part 01 serve our heartiest congratulations. the Portuguese Empire in India, we should accept it, of course, as it is and I am glad that the Prime Minister as a sign of the shadow of the future has brought forward this Bill today. to come. Tomorrow India is going to observe her Independence Day and it is good I belieVe .that th~ members of the that on the eve of that day we are Varishta Panchayal of Dadra Qno;! havint: our friends with us. Nagar Haveli have themselves comE' .here, have been here for the last few They have made a great sacrifice, no ~8, to be present On what to them doubt, and by their model they have and to US is a historic occasion. shown what patriotism means. They have been part and parcel of India for I should like to point out how well, centuries together. They are not during the last few years when they strangers to us, they are our own have been functioning there as the people, they are Indians. And so are governing authority of a free terri- those residing in Goa. I would have tory. they hav~, no doubt advised by very much preferred the Prime Minis- our Administrator, conducted the ter not emphasizing this fact in the affairs of this territory. The place has Statement of Objects and Reasons .that been improved very greatly, I am they are coming into the Union be- told, in education and in other ways. l!au;e of their own will, or because of Over and above that they have col- lileir expressed desire to do so. Will or lected a I arge surplus of, I think, Rs. no will they are our own nationals, 18 Jakhs. and therefore, no expression of their desire was needed. Whether they had An Hon. Member: Rs. 30 lakhs. expressed or not, for centuries toge- ther they had been Indians, a formal Shri Jawaharlal Nehrn: However, it request from these people was not at is a large sum. It will go into the all needed, and nobody on earth cm Consolidated Fund of India, hut that question their citizenship of India, or and more is going to be spent for the that of the Goanese. I do not think it improvement and advancement 01 the should go down as a precedent that people 01 these territories. people joining the Union must express their desire in so many words. They Sir, I move. are members of the same vast family; They need not express a desire, it • Mr. Speaker: Motion moved: their birth right to walk into thlt Union, and the formality of their ex- "That the Bill further to amend pressing a desire through resolutiona the Constitution of India, be taken or things like that is not at all need- into consideration." ed. I also insist that it may not b. taken as a precedent for the future in Shrl Tyagl (Dehra Dun): This is an the matter of Goa. occasion when the people of Dadra and Nagar Haveli are to be congratu- Practically the whole of India agree. lated. I think they deserve better to the idea of Goa being a part of the congratulations than India deserved Union. although it is not virtually in when it became independent, because our possession. Factually we are nGt India, after all, was a vast country. ill! Po8~ession because there is still