239 Statutory Resolution [ RAJYA SABHA ] of President's Rule 240 approving continuance in Punjab [Shri Pawan Kumar Bansal] the Scheme for grant of pension to freedom But now there is an intense inter-flghting fighters in the Silver Jubilee year of between the two Dais as well. Though there Independence. The Scheme was subsequently may be a glut of leaders E^nongst them, they liberalised and renamed as the Swatantrata lack total leadership. The recent elections to Sai-nik Samman Pension Scheme. Although the Executive of the Shiromani Gurudwara over 1, 43, 000 freedom fighters have so far Prabhandak Cornmittee, the apex body been granted Samman Pension under th* managing the Sikh shrines, has further scheme in addition to the pension? granted to complicated the situation with two factions freedom fighters by rsspec tive State claiming victory. Governments under their own schemes, it was seen that a number of eminent freedom I, like all other hon. Members, am a strong fighters whose contribution to the freedom votary of a political solution to the Punjab movement is well-know had not applied for problem and am convinced that it is only sanction of pension in their favour. It has been through dialogue that Punjab can be restored felt right and proper that they should be to its pristine glory. But I am also conscious sanctioned pension irrespective of whether of the fact of the unpalatable reality that at they applied for it or not. It has also been felt present the Akalis, who erroneously claim to that it would he most apt to make such a be the sole representatives of the major gesture during the 40th Year of Independence. community in the State, have failed their constituents at a very critical juncture in their It gives m e greatest pleasure to announce history and are in no position to provide a that as a small token of the Nations gratitude strong leadership. to their invaluable contribution in the attainment of the goal of national THE VICE-CHAIRMAN (SHRI JAGESH independence it has been decided, wi*h the DESAI); Mr. Bansal you can continue after kind approval of the Prime Minister, to sanc- the lunch recess. tion Samman pension suo-rn. oto to the following 97 eminent freedom fighters: —On Now the House is adjourned 'or lunch and this occasion, Madam_ I beg to place this on will again meet at 2. 30 p. m. the Table of the House. The House then adjourned for lunch at 1. Shri R. Venkataraman, now* thirty-one minutes past one or the clock. President of India 2. Giani Zail Singh, ex-President The House reassembled after lunch at thirty- two minutes past two of the clock, The 3. Shri P. V. Narasimha Rao, EX-CM Andhra Pradesh and now Union Deputy Chairman in the Chair. Minister 4. Shri N. SanjiVa Reddy, ex-President STATEMENT THE MINISTER 5. Sardar Darbara Singh, ex-CM Punjab II Grant of Pension to Eminent Freedom Fighters and now Member of Parliament 6. Shri H. N. Bahuguna, ex-CM of Uttar THE MINISTER OF STATE IN THE Pradesh and former Union Minister MINISTRY OF HOME AFFAIRS (SHRI CHINTAMANI PANIGRAHI): Madam, 7. Com. S. A. Dange, Communist Leader Deputy Chairman, The House will recall that, and Trade Union Leader at the instance of the Late Prime Minister Smt. Indira Gandhi, the Government had taken uP 241 Statement [ 9 NOV. 1987 ] by Minister 242 8. Shri B. T. Randadive, CPM leader of Bombay 34. Dr. Sisir Bose, ex-MLA and' 9. Shri Vasant Roy Patil alias nephew of Netaji. Vasant Dada Patil, Govemor Rajas'han 35. Shri Aurobindo Bose. ex-MLC 10. Sh. C. Rajeshwar Rao, General and nephew of Netaji. Secretary of CPI 36. Shri Virendra of Pratap Daily 11. Shri Morarji Desai, Ex-CM Bombay and Ex-Prim Minister 37. Shri Karpuri Thakur, ex-M. P. e and former CM, Bihar 12. Shri Babubhai Patel, ex-CM Gujarat 38. Km. Maniben Patel. ex-M. P. and daughter of Sardar Patel 13. Shri Hitendra Desai, ex-CM, 39. Shri Sadiq Ali, ex-M. P. and Gujarat Governor 14. Shri Ghanshyambhai Ojha, ex- 40. Smt. Aruna Asaf Ail. CM Gujarat 41. Shri Ram Kishan Bajaj. 15. Shri R. R. Divakar, former Union 42. Sardar Kapur Singh, ex-Spea- Minister and Governor ker, Punjab. 16. Shri Prafulla Chandra Sen, Ex- 43. Shri Balwant Rai Tayal, ex- CM West Bengal. Minister, Haryana. 17. Com. E. M. S. Namboodripad, 44. Pt. Bhagwat Dayal Sharma, Ex-CM Kerala. ex-CM, Haryana. 18. Shri Samar Mukherjee, Member 45. Shri Vichitra Narayan Sharma, ex-Minister, U. P. of Parliament. 46. Smt. Lalita Shastri as w/o late 19. Shri Dev Kant Barooah, Ex- Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri. M. P, and former President Indian National Congress and Union 47. Smt. Indirani Devi, widow of Minister. late Shri Jagjivan Ram. 20. Shri Nilmony Routary,, Ex-CM 48. Smt. Gayatri Devi, as w/o late Orissa. Ch. Charan Singh. 21. Shri Biju Patnaik, Ex-CM 49. Wife of late Shri Atulya Ghosh. Orissa. 50. Wife of late Sardar Mangal 22. Shri Devi Lai, Now CM Singh. Haryana. 51. Smt. Ram Dulari Sinha, as w/o 23. Shri Mool Chand Jain, ex- late Thakur Jugal Kishore Singh. Minister, Haryana. 52. Wife of late Seth Ram Nath, Jaitu 24. Shri Achyut Patwardhan. Mandi, Punjab. 25. Shri S. M. Joshi. 53. Smt. Shanti Devi as. w/o late Shri Jagat Narain. 26. Shri N. G. Goray, ex-M. P. 54. Begum Abida Ahmed as w/o 27. Shri Madhu Limaye, ex-M. P. late Sh. Fakruddin Ali Ahmed 28. Shri Tridib Chaudhary, ex-M. P. 55. Shri N. D. Tiwari, Union 29. Shri Prabhakar Kunte. Finance Minister. 30. Shri Nijalingappa, former CM 56. Shri Sachindra Lal Singh, ex- Karnataka. CM, Tripura. 31. Co. (Dr. ) Lakshmi Sehgal of INA 57. Shri Muthyal Rao, ex-M. P. 32. Dr. G. S. Dhillon, ex-Speaker 58. Rajendra Kumari Bajpai, Union and now Union Minister 33. Shri P. Minister. Ramamurthy ex-M. P. 59. Shri Vasant Sathe Union Minister. 243 Statement. [ RAJYA SABHA ] by Minister 244 60. Shri P. R. Chakravarti. 97. Shri Radha Nath Rath, Ex-Minister, Orissa, Editor Daily Samaj, Cuttack. 81. Shri S. B. Chavan, Chief Minister ( Maharashtra. 2. Samman Pension in the above cases will be effective from 2nd October, 1987, Gandhi 82. Shri R. K. Hegde, Chief Minister, Jayanthi Day. Karnataka. 83. Dr. M. R. Vyas, Political PS SHRI DIPEN GHOSH (West Bengal): to Netaji. Madam, Deputy Chairman ( 1 appreciate the 64. Shri Bindeshwari Dube, Chief gesture shown by th© Central Government to Minister, Bihar. accord suo motu Samman pension to some eminent freedom fighters who had not 65. Shri Shiv Verma. applied for sanction of pension in their 66. Shri B. D. Jatti, ex-Vice favour earlier. Madam. I have gone President. through the list of 97 eminent freedom 67. Shri Prem Krishan Khanna. fighters to whom Samman pension has been 68. Shri Z. A. Ahmed. proposed to be given but I see that there are still some eminent freedom fighters 69. Shri Raja Ram Shastri. belonging to the Andaman political prisoners 70. Shri Niranjan Singh Gill. group, whose names have not found place in 71. Shri E. P. Gopalan. this list. Among these 97, I do not find some of those eminent political freedom fighters' 72. Shri B. Gopala Reddy. names who had undergone rigorous 73. Shri C. Achyuta Menon. imprisonment from 12 years to 17 yearg 74. Shri Brahmananda Reddy. in Andamans including a large part in Cellular Jail but did not apply for pension 75. Shri Chimanlai Pranlal Bhatt. in 1969 when they were first sanctioned 76. Shri Umashanker Joshi. such pension. And Madam, when first the 77. Smt. Annapurna Mehta. Government's decision came to the Press, 78. Sister Of Ram Prasad Bismil. the representatives of the Ex-Andaman Political Prisoners' Fraternity Circle had 79. Mother of Chandrasekhar come to Delhi and sought to meet the Home Azad. Minister to hand over some such names of 80. Shri Jaidev Kapur. eminent freedom fighters who had not applied 81. Shri V. Subbaiah. for pension earlier but who should be given Samman Pension. But they could not meet the 82. Shri M. R. Masani. Home Minister. Later, they had submitted a memorandum to the Home Minister on 83. Shri Saleh Bhai Abdul Kader. 20th October and they had given ten 84. Shri D. K. Kunte names whom they consider as eminent freedom fighter who had not applied for 85. Shri S. G. Sardesai. s pension earlier and who had suffered 86. Shri Brish Bhan. rigorous imprisonment of 12 t 0 17 year s in 87. Smt. Hansa Mehta Andamana in the cause of India's 88. Smt. Malati Choudhari. freedom. Those names included the name of Shri Ganesh Ghosh—our Minister and 89. Principal Chabil Das. many other Members on the other side 90. Master Hari Singh. must be knowing—who wag a M. P. and : 91. Begum Abdullah as w/o late Sheikh who" is still alive Abdullah. 92. Zainab Bebum as sister of late Ghulam Mohd. Sadiq. 93. Shri Girdhari Lal Ddgra. 94. Shri Abdul Ghafoor. 95. Wife of late Barkatujlah Khan. S6. Shri Anant T. Hohgorani. 245 Statement [ 9 NOV. 1987 ] by Minister 246 and who Was an associate of "Masterda" Shri Surya Sen. There are other names also and they are Amritendu Mukherjee, Mukul Ranjan Sen, Nanda Dulal Singh, Prankrishna Chakravarty,. Provat Chakraverty, Subodh Roy, Sudhansu Dasgupta, Sukumar Sengupta—from West Bengal—and Gopen Roy from Assam. Ali of them were ex-Andaman Prisoners suffering imprisonment for 12 to 17 years in the cause of Indian independence.