...The point which I am making is this, that our party has got its commitment, its ideology, its programmes; it has got its coordinated policies, on the basis of the which they have functioned in this country for the last thirty years. These efforts have made a major contribution in making what modern India is today. These facts cannot be denied simply by accusing Congress. You can always raise arguments about emergency. Yesterday the Finance Minister was refusing to accept certain realities. We don’t say that we have done everything good. But we have done certain things to improve the economy of the country. Look at the foreign exchange position. We have proved that we have got the capacity to stop the trend of inflation which the world bodies have accepted.
The Prime Minister (Shri. Morarji Desai) : The World Bank has wrongly accepted the manipulated claim of buoyancy of the economy which was bogus.
Dr subramaniam Swamy (Bombay North East) : Government statistics are what they are; we have expressed our doubts about the Government statistics.
Shri. Y. B. Chavan : You will be representing India in many international conferences. Please don’t do injustice to India in order to spite the Congress. Only because you do not like us, don’t say the World Bank was bogus.
Shri Morarji Desai : I have not said that the World Bank is bogus. I have never said that.
Shri Y. B. Chavan : The World Bank has produced certain documents which you consider bogus. That means, World Bank is bogus. What else does it mean
May I respectfully submit to you that our Prime Minister who was also a member of the former Government for many years had also made some contributions to what India is today. (Interruptions). He was himself a part of the Congress. At that time he was Finance Minister. Then, he was a Commerce Minister for many years and then Deputy Prime Minister for some years am he had his own contributions to make. So, why disown our own doings or our own child, if I may say so?
I find only a sort of negative attitude in this and thus you would not be taking a realistic view. If you want to handle India, a difficult country, a dear country which we all love - but a very complex country and difficult country - please do not take our people for granted. We were 350 a few weeks ago and the people got angry and so we are now 150. But, take not of one thing with all your efforts you have got 270 seats and in no time you will be seventy only, if only the people take it into their heads. So, please do not take our people for granted. I am only stating the fact. I am sitting on this side in acceptance of certain realities and we are realistic indeed. We shall certainly look forward to the future with confidence and shall certainly get our place in the hearts of the people and be back again. We are for the service of the people as we had been so far and we can certainly go to them and admit our mistakes. A mother can be angry with her child. But she does not get angry with her child permanently.
