To make a few observations during the discussion on the finance bill. At this state, therefore, it is better to use this opportunity to make a survey of the economic situation and find out what the present condition of the people is, whether they are satisfied, and if they are not satisfied what the reason are. I feel this responsibility is greater today when the American aid is likely to be reduced and, therefore, we have got to stand more on our own legs. When the plan was set forth, there were three sources from which we hoped to get finance for the plan, namely, our own resources from the revenue, loans within the country through savings and thirdly foreign help. The latter we need not discuss here. If we study the accomplishments of the plan and the resources that it has been possible to raise, we cannot deny that our expectations have not been fulfilled and we have therefore to find out the reasons which have led to that situation. Here, incidentally I would like to touch, in a sentence or two, the entire them of the speech of Mr. Bhupesh Gupta. It is very easy to say, this should be done or this could have been done from the opposition point of view, But I would like to ask him a question and he can reply to it later in some other speech whether in Russai it would be possible for anybody not in the debate in the parliament, but even outside, to utter a single sentence against the government policy. In our democratic set-up, we have allowed the people to criticise government policies. Even as congress people, we are free to criticise the policies of the government but the point is whether the doubts raised in the minds of the public by the people in the opposition who show their loyalty to a different set-up would be conducive to create the enthusiasm that is necessary and the inspiration that is necessary to give their very best to fulfil the targets of the plan. This planned economy is really not a thing that will go successfully hand in hand with a democratic set-up unless some other things are there, and they are the inculcation of a national spirit, giving of proper national education to develop a national outlook.
