MESSAGE from the LOK SABHA Shrl AJIT KUMAR SHARMA: He W'll the High Court and Supreme Court Speak Afterwards
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199 Assam Appropriation [ RAJYA SABHA ] (No. 2) Bill, 1980 200 Lok Sabha at its sitting held on the 26th November, 1980. 2. The Speaker has certified that this Bill is a Money Bill within the meaning of article 11 o of the Constitution of India." Sir, I lay a copy of the Bill on the Table. THE BUDGET (ASSAM) 1980-81— GENERAL DISCUSSION—contd. AND THE ASSAM APPROPRIATION (No. 2) BILL, 1980—contd. SHRI AJIT KUMAR SHARMA: What about the other speakers on the subject'.' MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN. They will speak after the Home Ministers intervention. Others will also speak. Then the Finance Minister will reply- SHRI AJIT KUMAR SHARMA: After the Home Minister speaks, there is no sense in our speaking. MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: The Finance Minister will reply. The spokesmen of the major parties have spoken. SHRI AJIT KUMAR SHARMA: We want the Home Minister should speak afterwards. MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: The re- presentatives of the major parties have already spoken, and some independents have also spoken. MESSAGE FROM THE LOK SABHA SHRl AJIT KUMAR SHARMA: He W'll The High Court and Supreme Court speak afterwards. Judges (Conditions of Service) Am- MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: That is not endment Bill, 1980 possible. The Finance Minister will reply to the debate. The major parties have spoken. SECRETARY-GENERAL: Sir, I beg to Some independents have also spoken. report to the House the following Message received from the Lok Sabha signed by the SHRI AJIT KUMAR SHARMA: In that Secretary of the Lok Sabha: case there is no sense in our participating in the debate. (Interruptions) The Home "In accordance with the provisions of Minister will listen and then reply. Rule 96 of the Rules of Procedure and Conduct of Business in Lok Sabha. I am directed to enclose herewith the High Court and Supreme Court Judges (Conditions Q.i Service) Amendment Bill, 1980, as passed by 201 Assam Appropriation [ 27 NOV. 1980 ] (No. 2) Bill, 1980 202 MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: AH the views have been expressed in the House. Every Member cannot speak. The major parties have spoken. SHRI AJIT KUMAR SHARMA: There was an agreement with the Chairman. SHRI T. ALIBA IMTI (Nagaland): There is no point in our speaking after the Home Minister speaks. SHRI MAGANBHAI BAROT: May I request, Sirj that in that event; the Home Minister may intervene at 2-30 and between 2-00 and 2-30 other Members may speak? MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: That can be done. SHRI T. ALIBA IMTI; Sir, some of us may take only five minutes, and before the Home Minister replies, we want to put forward our views. MR-. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: All right, I agree. The Home Minister will intervene at 2-30. Before that, two or three Members will MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: Mr. be allowed. Imti please take your seat. The House then adjourned for lunch at twelve minutes past one of the clock. The House reassembled, after lunch, at two minutes past two of the clock, Mr. Deputy Chairman in the Chair. SHRl AJIT KUMAR SHARMA: Mr. Deputy Chairman, the honourable Finance Minister has presented his third statement on Assam Budget. I very well realise the sitation in which he has been placed. He is only acting on behalf of somebody else who is lying critically ill. He is only trying 203 The Assam Appropriation [ RAJYA SABHA ] (Wo. 2) Bill, 1980 204 [Shri Ajit Kumar Sharma] thousands every year. The area has been to prescribe a medicine to a patient totally neglected for the last 32 years. Now, who has been kept in the oxigen box when the people of Assam say "let us be for the last one year and is trying protected", the Government says that they are hard to rescue him from the final fate. secessionists, they are anti-Indian, anti- As far as the financial statements con Muslim; anti-Bengali and all sorts of accusa- tained in the Budget Speech are con- tions have been hurled at them. Why? Just because the people have reminded the cerned( there also I do not want to blame him because he does not know Government to fulfil its constitutional the real conditions of the State for obligation. I want the Government to realise which he is presenting a Budget. Let the necessity of solving the basic issue. me remind him that this is a State People are on the struggle path. The entire which suffered terribly under exploi Assam is in this unprecedented struggle for tation by foreign capital during the more than one year now. What is the cau.re British regime. Instead of ending that behind it? kind of exploitation in the new re gime after independence the neo-Indian The West Bengal Chief Minister has stated capitalists joined hands with the that it is a picnic party and in the picnic party foreign capital and continued the ex ladies are going with their handbags. Is it a ploitation. As a result, we find a picnic party that has been going on in Assam situation where people have to go to for the last more than one year ? You must I0r come to the basic cause of this problem. streets demanding the very essen tials of their life. After exploitation Now, Sir, I do not want to deal with what by foreign capital the problem was had happened in the past. I would only try to heightened, it was made more com present before the House how and why the plex, by the physical presence of lakhs negotiations between the leaders of the of foreigners in this State. Now, movement, and the Government have not so Sir. let nie tell the Finance Minister that he far succeeded. What is the reason behind it? Is cannot prepare a good Budget for the State, if because that the students are adamant and nor can he prepare a good Plan for the therefore there has been no solution? The development of the State, unless he tackles basic thing is that the Government and some both the problems simultaneously, namely, political parties are trying to avoid the real the problem of economic exploitation of the disease. They do not want to tackle the real people and the problem of physical presence cause of the disease. They only want to treat of foreigners. What has been the economic the symptoms and by treating the symptoms situation today? The per capita land available they want to temporarily suppress the disease. for a cultivator in Assam is the lowest in the This kind of suppression the people of Assam country. If you just read the report of are not prepared to accept. They have waited Economic Survey you will see that between far too Jong. Now they want a final solution. 1971 and 1976 the national income of Assam They do not want any more ameliorative rose by 500 per cent but the per capita income treatment on a temporary basis. That is the rose only by 16 per cent, whereas the Indian main issue which is facing the Home Ministry average is 40 per cent during the period. What today. does it show? It show the extreme population s Now, Sir, I remind the Home Minister that pressure in th State leading to a very alarm- e in 1971, his Ministry had issued a circular to ing situation for the entire people. They have Assam pointing out this alarming situation of been suffering and the Government lias failed infiil- in its fundamental duty pf not only developing that area economically, but they have even failed to protect them from foreigners who Kavj. been allowed to infiltrate in 205 Assam Appropriation [ 27 NOV. 1980 ] (No. 2) Bill, 1980 206 tration in the State. If he looks into MR. DEPUTY CHAIRMAN: Mr. Sharma, the flies 0; the Home Ministry, he will you have to conclude within two minutes. find that. And yet, Sir, it continued like that and, in 1978, ho less a person SHRI AJIT KUMAR SHARMA: I will than the Chief Election Commissioner finish in five minutes, Sir. Now, Sir, the first said one very significant thing. It discussion was held and in that discussion, the was a warning to the Government and the demands were in principle accepted by the people against an alarming situation. He said: Government. At that time there was no "Unless you take drastic action to control and question of any cut-off year. But the moment reduce the population of Assam and stop the the discussions concluded, the Government influx, then, by 1991, Assam would be said that they would only start from 1971. And inhabited by a majority of the foreigners.'' then the hitch started. It started from there This statement he made in his written address only. They wanted a constitutional remedy after visiting the entire North-Eastern area. and not an arbitrary, politically motivated Now, the peopie of Assam are fighting so that stop-gap solution. If we swear by the by 1991 the State of Assam is not taken away constitutional provisions and the Citizenship by the silent foreign invasion. We are no Act, then we have no other way except starting secessionists and we are not demanding from the year 1951. If you really say that you secession. But it is only the Government want to have a constitutional solution to the which is preparing the ground for driving out problem, you have no other way except to start the whole North-Eastern region from India. from the year 1951 on the basis of the 1951 By preventing a solution it is the Government NRC and the 1952 electoral roll and these two which has become the secessionist and the are the basic documents available immediately Government is allowing the conditions to after the independence of the country.