VOLUME XXVI, NO. 4 December, 1980 THE JOURNAL OF PA.RLIAMENTARY INFORMATION Vol. XXVI NO·4 December, 1980 CONTENTS ·EDITORIAL NOTE 459 ..ADDRESS BY HIS EXOELLENOY MR. LEONID ILYICH BUZHNEV TO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT Speech by Shri M. Hidayatul1ah, Chairman, Rajya Sabha 460 Address by Mr. Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev 462 Speech by Shri Bal Ram Jakhar, Speaker, Lok Sabha 467 REGIONAL SEMINAR ON PARLIAMENTARY PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE FOR AsIA AND SOUTH-EAST AsIA REGIONS OF THE C.P.A. Inaugural Address by Shri Bal Ram Jakhar, Speaker, Lok Sabha 469 Address by Shri Shyam La} Yadav, Deputy Chairman, Rajya Sabha 472 Keynote Address by Shri G. Lakhamanan, Deputy-Speaker, Lok Sabha on "Role of Private Member-How to make his contribution more effective?" 475 Keynote Address by Shri Ram Niwas Mirdha, M.P. on "The Executive and Parliament" 478 PARLIAMENTARY EVENTS AND AcrlVITlES Conferrnces and Symposia 484 Indian Parliamentary Delegations Abroad 487 Parliamentary Delegations from Abroad 487 Bureau of Parliamentary Studies and Training 487 Exhibition on "Nehru-Patriot, Parliamentarian and Nation Builder" 490 hlVILEOE ISSUES 492 iPaOCEDURAL MA1TBR8 509 32soL8-1 (ii) PARLIAMENTARY AND CONSTlTUfIO'lAL DEVELOPIIEN'n SIT SESSIONAL REVIEW Seventh Lok Sabha-Fourth Session Rajya Sabha-1I6th Session State Legislatures BooK. REVIEWS L. K. jha: Economic Strategy for tM 80S. Published by Allied Publication, Delhi, 1980 -v. N. Gadgil S51 Bimal Prasad (Ed.): A Revolutionary Qpest Selected writings of jayaprakash Narayan R. C. Gupta: J.P.-From Marxism to Total Revolrllion -Professor H. N. Mukherjee S52' lUoENT LITERATURE OF PARLIAMENTARY INTEllIIST 555; 4PPENDICBS I. Statement showing the work transacted during the Fourth Session of Seventh Lok Sabha 559' II. Statement showing the work transacted during the Hundred Sixteenth Session of Rajya Sabha 564: III. Statement showing activities of State Legislatures duting the period 1St july, 1980 to 30th September, 1980 568; IV. List ofBills passed by the Houses of Parliament and Assented. to by the President during the period 1St july, 1980 to 30th September, 1980 57): V. Bills pa'ISed by the State Legislatures during the period 1St july, 1980 to 30th September, 1980 574- VI. Ordinances issued by the Central Government and by the State Governments during the period 1St july, IgSO to 30th September, 1980 581' VII. Party Position in Lok Sabh'l, R~iya Sabha and State Legislatures S8S' INDEX TO VOL. XXVI (1980) EDITORIAL NOTE His Excellency Mr. Leonid llyich BreulDev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Chair- man of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.S.R. addressed the Members of Parliament during his official visit to this country in December 1980. We publish in this issue Mr. Brezhnev's address, as well as the speeches by the Hon'ble Chairman of Rajya Sabha and the Hon'ble Speaker of Lok Sabha on the occasion. A Regional Seminar on Parliamentary Practice and Procedure for Asia and South-east Asia regions of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Associa- tion was held under the auspices of. the Indian Parliamentary Group (which functions also as the India Branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association) at New Delhi in October, 1980. Two subjects were discussed at the Seminar: 'The Executive and Parliament' and 'The Role of Private Members-How ·to make their contributions more effective?" We publish in this issue the inaugural address by Shri Bal Ram Jakhar, Speaker of Lok Sabha and the address on the occasion by Shri Shyam Lal Yadav. Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabha, as also the key-note speeches on the two subjects at this Seminar, by Shri G. Lakshamanan, Deputy Speaker of Lok Sabha and Shri Ram Niwas Mirdha, former Deputy Chairman of Rajya Sabba. This issue carries, besides, other regular features on parliamentary pri- vileges, procedural matters, parliamentary events and activities, constitutional and parliamentary developments in India and abroad, brief resume of Sessions of the two Houses of Parliament and State Legislatures and book reviews. -Avtar Singh Rikhy. I ADDRESS BY IDS EXCELLENCY MR. LEONID ILYICH BREZHNEV TO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT On 10 December 1980, His ExcelIency Mr. L.eotid Ilyich Brezhnev, General-Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and President of the Presidium of the USSR Supreme Soviet addressed the Members of Parliament in the Central Hall of the Parliament House. We reproduce below the text of his Address as wen :as of the welcome speech by Shri M. HidayatuIlah, Vice-President of India ad Chairman of Rajya Sabha, and the Thanks-giving speech by Shri Bal Ram J akhar, Speaker of Lok Sabha. -Editor. ------- ------- - ---------- SPEECH BY SHRI M .• HIDAYATULLAH, CHAIRMAN, RAJYA SABHA 1t is a matter of great pleasure to have with us today, His Excellency, Mr. Brezhnev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the U.S.s.R. On behalf of the Members of our Parliament and the people of India I extend a warm and hearty welcome to our esteemed and distinguished guest. Excellencies, Hon'ble Members, Ladies and Gentlemen, the friendship -between the Soviet Union and India goes back to days when with us free- ,dom was stilI an aspiration and a dream. Need it be recalled that even in 'those dliys of our freedom struggle we found nothing but sympathy and Address by H. E. Mr, Leonid Brezhnev '461 !Understanding in the Soviet Union. The leaders of our freedom move- .ment were inspired and profoundly influenced by the Great October Revolu- tion which provided an impetus to the liberation movements in Asia and .other parts of the world. I may also perhaps recall that when the Soviet Union was engaged in a grim struggle against the Nazi invasion. the Indi8l1 National Congress passed a resolution expressing, on behalf of the Indian people. their sympathy and admiration for the astonishing self sacrifice and heroic courage of the Soviet people in the defence of their country and freedom. With all this background, what was more natural than that after India became free, friendship with the Soviet Union should have come to ·occupy a place of primacy in her foreign relations. Our people have had great admiration for the vitality and determina- -tion that the Soviet people demonstrated through their spectacular progress in various fields of industry, science, technology and space. In India even in the hour of freedom our leaders were clear in -their minds that political 'emancipation was incomplete without economic growth and socia-economic justice. And ever since our Independence, we are accordingly engaged "in a massive programme of planned economic growth in order to lay the foundation of a self-relient economy and bring about betterment in the "living standards of our people. In this giganti(; task, how can one forget the crucial role played and coopeartion extended by the friendly Soviet Union. The contribution of that country in key sectors of our economy like steel, machine building, power, oil production and refining, has helped us to build the necessary industrial infra-structure of our country. Your Excellency, we know well your own keen personal interest in India's deve- lopmental efforts and her progress. A speci!!J feature of the Soviet assis- tance has been that it has helped our public sector which now occupies the commanding heights of our country's economy. Dhilai, Dokaro and Mathura wiU ever stand out as symbols of Indo-Soviet collaboration. Not surprisingly, the trade between the two countries has been steadily 'expanding over the years, and it is heartening to note that Our economic relations are now beginning to assume new dimensions. The Indo-Soviet loint Economic Commission is engaged in a continuing search for identifi- cation ot new areas of cooperation a wider development of industrial colla- 'boration with exchange of technologies and undertaking joint ventures in the Third Countries. In Our world there is growing interdependence and in it peace and human happiness are indivisible. All the countries of the world t-oday do desire peace as a pre-condition for progress. In order to widen the area ?f p::ace and limit the consequences of tension, India's approach in her lDternatlonal relations has been one of non-alignment and independence of judgement, a policy which, we are happy to say, the Soviet Union has always 462 Journal 0/ ParUamentary In/ormation appreciated. Both India and Soviet Union have been consistently working together for the strengthening of universal peace and indepedence of nations, against imperialism, colonialism, neo-colonialism and racial discrimination and in defence of freedom of all peoples on the basis of full equality and mutual respect. Indo-Soviet friendship is based on a mutually shared vision of a world where all nations live in a peace and prosperity. Our friendship is an out· standing example of two countries with different socio-economic systems collaborating for mutual benefit and the larger good of mankind. This visit of yours, Your Excellency, we are sure, will be an important landmark in our relationship which will further strengthen the close ties of under- standing and friendship that bind us together. May I now request you. Your Excellency, to deliver your address? ADDRESS By MR. LEONID ILYICH BREZHNEV, GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE CENTRAL CoMMITTEE OF THE OPSU AND- PRESIDENT OF THE SUPREME SoVIET OF THE U .S.S.R. First of all, I would like to thank you for -this opportunity to speak from this high rostrum and to convey to you, BiIld through you to the entire Indian people, heartiest greetings and good wishes from the USSR Supreme Soviet, from the entire Soviet people.