Shri Yashwantrao Chavan : J. P asked him “What is the situation in the country today?” and Vajpayee said “Don’t ask me about the situation in the country. Ask about the foreign countries.” Is only gives me the impression that Ministers seem to be very happy and relaxed only when they are out of the country. There are talking, about high sounding principles of foreign policy and all that. I would like to make it clear that we are not making the foreign policy the basis of this no confidence motion. I want to make that point very clear, but this psychology of the ministers speaks very eloquently about the real situation in the country. When they come back to the country and when they see the realities, naturally I can understand their feeling and if Vajpayeeji had said what is reported, I very well share my sympathies with him.
Though I said that I was not making the foreign policy the basis of this motion of no confidence, I would like to say one important thing, that no foreign policy will succeed, however good it is, unless it is supported and strengthened by sound internal domestic policies. That is the ultimate test by which a Government will be judged, a country will be judged.
When a sitting Prime Minister goes to another country, they just do not look at his face, they look at the face of the country, its economic situation and political situation and how the whole thing looks like. That is the final test. We have to go by what the internal situation in the country is and what the picture looks like. Let us look at the picture of the country today. What is the political picture like? As I have told you, the general situation can be described as a situation of crisis. But when somebody asks the Prime Minister about it, I am sure, he will say that there is no crisis, everything is alright and God will look after us, I think, it is only God, who can save us from the present situation. We have reached such a situation, where God alone can save us.
Shri Dinesh Battacharya : He God or She God?
Shri Yashwantrao Chavan : If you want, She God. I would like to touch two points on the political picture. How are the States functioning? Why go to the States on all sides; let us look at the States which are being run by the Janata Party. In the last two or three months, there was a competition in unsettling the state administration of these Governments. When the top leadership is interested is unsettling the administration in the States and creating some sort of a chaotic situation, who is going to save the political situation and what is the political atmosphere is going to be. It is better not to talk about it.
We talk about indiscipline. I am going to come to the Police Strike. It is stated that discipline is important. Yes. But it is not merely a world, but an attitude. You are not running your own party or your own Governments in a proper method, but in a fictional manner, and interested in toppling the State Governments. What is the significance of that toppling is that the Upper classes have combined against the poor people in the country, the rural people in the country. This is the significance of the unsettling of the Governments. (Interruptions) I said the truth and I got the response from there. This is about the unsettling of the State Governments.
