The last great war when they were exhorting people, the common people to contribute their full mite to the war effort. According to us, however, Sir, we are passing through such a time at the present moment and I have no doubt that the common people appreciate this position and will willingly tighten their belts, contribute their full mite, and will surely return the congress to power, having full confidence in the future, and looking to a future where their posterity will be assured of a forbetter social and economic order. Who, Sir, does not sympathise with the difficulties of the comman man? As a mater of fact, most of us come from that class, and I am sure the finance minister would have liked to do away with some of the levies. None would have been happier if he could have done without these new levies but there are, Sir, certain very imperative limitations. We are passing through a criticial period. Sir, it may not be necessary to continue these levies for a long time; rather I am inclined to think that before long it may be possible to give up some of them at least. In discussing the demands for grants of the finance ministry, we have got to see to what extent the administration of this particular ministry has led to the development of our national wealth and the securing of the welfare which our state claims to have in view. Madam, we must try to analyze very carefully the working of this particular ministry, because it is not merely a department of the government, so to say, but it is the nerve center of the administration of the country. I would like first to refer to the role of foreign capital, because in determining the manner in which the permission of capital issues has been granted by the particular administration.
