He never diminished his commitment to his kind of 'satyagraha' against injustice and inequality. His stoic determination, patience and magnanimity reminded us, in India, of the revolutionary methods of Mahatma Gandhi. It was, therefore, an honour for Indians. In 1995, when visited India as the first President of post-apartheid Africa, Mandela visited Gandhiji's Sabarmati Ashram and said that it was for him a homecoming, a pilgrimage. We, on our part, associate South Africa with the first chapter of Mahatma Gandhi's freedom movement. Gandhiji had staked his carrer as a budding lawyer in South Africa to resist segregation and inequality-before he embarked for India and took up, in India, the same cause. The six principles that Madiba identified as the fundamentals of the foreign policy of the new South Africa equal human rights, democracy, respect for international law, world peace achieved through non-violent means, effective arms control regimes and economic co-operation in an interdependent world, are the same principles that the Fonding Fathers of free India had enshrined in our own policy of Panchshell. Madiba often acknowledged the influence of Mahatma Gandhi and the first Prime Minister of India, Jawaharlal Nehru on his own thought pricess. It is no wonder then that we, in India, attach great sentiment to our unique with the people of this great country South Africa. We stand by you in your hour of bereavement and we share your sense of loss today. Sir, in the year 1964 there was a fire accident in HEC, and later on it was found that it was sabotage by some miscreant or somebody. At that time, in the year 1966 the Government felt that this type of Force should be created to fight this type of sabotage and this type of meance in the nation. In the year 1968, this Force was first created. In the subsequent years, the CISF Act got amended many times. The latest amendment is being done in this year, and the hon. Minister has suggested a proposal to extend the deployment of CISF which was earlier limited to Government establishments and public sector units only. Now, after we pass this Bill, the Government can deploy them in the private sector and also outside the country if it is necessary and needed.
