Shri Satyasadhan Chakraborty : Reality depends from which point of view you see.
Shri Yashwantrao Chavan : Naturally, I will see from my point of view. I give you the right to see from your point of view.
Shri Satyasadhan Chakraborty : Class point of view :
Shri Yashwantrao Chavan : Well, that is your bias. I cannot help it.
The one important reality today in the world and in India is that we are suffering from inflation, a sort of ‘super inflation’ may have some technical or other meaning. I do not want to go into it. But at the same time, our basic problem is to make India’s economy a viable economy in terms of agriculture, in terms of industry, in terms of social services, in terms of foreign exchange reserves etc. in terms of foreign trade, in terms of export and import, etc. all these things have to be taken into consideration. This is the basic task of the Government, and I would like to claim this, not only for this year or for the last two years, but for the last thirty or thirty-five years, that the Congress had performed the historical role of providing a strategy for industrial development, agricultural development and building up a national viable economy for the country. For the first time we know that we can become a great nation and we shall be one day a great nation. We are today a great nation in a way. I am not talking in terms of military strength. I am not talking in terms of the great powers.
(Interruptions)
Shri Satyasadhan Chakraborty : We do not agree.
Shree Yashwantrao Chavan : Therefore, when I said that this year’s Budget has to be judged I will come later, on what points one should judge a Budget - naturally our mind goes back to the last year. The Economic Review and the part of the speech of this Finance Minister in paragraphs 8, 9 and 10 particularly he has given the information about the new peak of production the agricultural field, new peak of production in the industrial field, new achievements in many other fields which are very essential and vital for the economic growth. In this background we have to see that we have to keep the same progress go further. We cannot slip back. If we slip back, we lose the opportunity in the history. I think India today has made progress gradually in such a way that 1982’s India is much different from what India was in 1952, 1962, or 1972. It has always made further progress, and still further progress. And that is by taking into consideration certain realities when we talk about it. Otherwise, how do you solve the problem of our Western front? Whatever we have to do about many other problems that arise in the country. But the difficulty is Mr. Chakraborty, do not get angry with us when you always remind us what you are doing West Bengal, you always forget India. Truth is that you do not know India?
