One Hon. Friend is quite senior and has been active in politics for the last forty years. He is fully aware of what politics used to be in the British period. The hon. President has also mentioned it in his address. The issue of terrorism in Bihar and Andhra Pradesh has been highlighted in it. It is absolutely true that the states of Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Orissa and West Bengal were badly affected by fedualism. Its main reason was that the British rulers entered the country through West Bengal and the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh were badly affected by landlordism. Many changes have taken place in the last forty years. We are aware of the fact that fedualism had the maximum impact on the states of Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. But the programmes implemented by our Governemnt in the last forty years have checked this trend. We always forget that along with one's gradual development. One automatically develops negative thinking also. We should not anticipate development only in the positive sense; it includes negative aspects too. When a poor man becomes rich, his mode of thinking is not changed. It is changed in due course of time. The prevailing conditions in Bihar are its living example. Another important achievement of this Government in the last five years is that the Government does not believe only in the dictum of economic growth. Mere economic growth is not going to percolate down the benefits to the people at the lower level. India is a very vast country with large diversities and diverse people including rich people, middle class people, lower-class people, downtrodden people, and When you initiate generated through the factor incomes like wages, interests, profits and other sources of income will normally go to the poor people. Therefore, the inequalities in the distribution of income are an inevitability in any democratic capitalist society, and this has happened in the case of the Indian economy also. But this UPA Government felt that this kind of an.
