Coming from a State, which joined the mainstream many years later, a State which is peaceful, beautiful and has wonderful people, I think, Sir, you, more than anyone else, will articulate the views and the aspirations of the forgotten small India. There are millions of them all over the country, belonging to small religions, small communities, small States, but each one of them adds to the greatness of this country. In your elevation, in your election, Sir, I think, we salute that small India, people belonging to small States, people belonging to small tribes, people belonging to small communities, people who have very small voice, a very small role because of circumstances. In honouring something which is small, we really honour all that is great in India.

Once again, Sir, on behalf of my party, the Tamil Manila Congress, I offer you my congratulations, felicitations and our promise of the fullest cooperation.

Thank you, Sir. (ends)

1213 hours

SHRI BOLLA BULI RAMAIAH (ELURU): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I wholeheartedly congratulate you on my own behalf as well as on behalf of my Telugu Desam Party, on your unanimous election to this august post of Speaker of Lok Sabha. Earlier, you have been a Chief Minister of Meghalaya. Also, as Minister for Labour and Minister for Information and Broadcasting - all these being very difficult jobs - you were able to conduct yourself very well. I hope and I am confident that you will succeed in running this House, which is the highest legislative forum, in a most dignified manner, giving opportunities to all sections of the House to ventilate their views. I assure you, Sir, on my behalf and on behalf of my party that we will extend our best cooperation to you in running the House.

Thank you, once again.

(ends)

1214 hours

SHRI INDRAJIT GUPTA (MIDNAPORE): Sir, I consider it a matter of gratification and privilege that accidentally it happened that I was called upon to declare you elected to this high post, which you now occupy with the unanimous choice of this House.

There is a proverb, as you know, which says that a cat has nine lives. Perhaps, I am reaching now the end of my career.

And therefore it is doubly happy for me that at this stage you, Sir, have been chosen unanimously by this House and today I feel, of course, it is a matter of pleasure for the entire country, particularly the people of the north-eastern region, I am sure they are filled with happiness, joy and pride that the Parliament of India has made, I consider it to be a gesture towards the federal spirit of this country. That was very necessary and very important. Apart from the fact that you belong to a minority community, a tribal community, Christian community, all these matters are very very important. And today at a time when our country is facing a very difficult crisis, a crisis of its identity, identity of a common nation, it was very necessary in my opinion that the House should make this gesture.

And I am therefore grateful to all sections of this House, including our friends on the other side that they have cooperated in this decision that we have taken. Sir, I do not wish to dwell in too much detail on your qualities of head and heart. I am a trade unionist in the better part of my life and I know that the working class also today in this country will be happy to find that the Labour Minister like you who showed himself to be a champion of the rights of the workingmen has been elevated to this high Office. As somebody said just now, you had to play the role of a conciliator and mediator in so many disputes, in so many cases, where you proved yourself to be a very adapt, very accommodating, very affable, very friendly and friend of all the people who wanted you to help them to solve some difficulties, I hope you will play a similar type of role in this House. Latterly, we have been, in this country, facing what is known as judicial activism. Some people like it and some people do not like it. This judicial activism has come into play recently, we should admit it partly at least because of the failure of the Legislature and of the Executive to play their due parts. As a result of which the judiciary in many cases has stepped in and taken the initiative, sometimes with good results and sometimes maybe not with good results. But we are Members of this House. We are Members of Parliament and we do feel proud when our Parliament can play its due role, its sovereign role in this country's structure. I hope, Sir, that you will be able to guide us and help us so that we can be worthy of the responsibility which the electorate has given to us. I would like to point out that roughly speaking, I may not be quite exact in my calculation, roughly about half of the electorate has not voted. What this is due to is something which we should ponder over. We should discuss whether there is a feeling of apathy for various reasons gripping the minds of large numbers of people, maybe it is partly due to the loss, growing loss of credibility of this institution itself.

If that is so, then we have to do some introspection and find out how far we are to blame for it. There is time to correct oneself; there is time to restore this Parliament to its original glory and pride.

We hope that with you in the Chair as Speaker - we are going to offer you our fullest cooperation for this - you will be able to guide the Parliament along a path which is historically and constitutionally destined to travel.

We assure you of our cooperation and we wish you all success. On behalf of myself and on behalf of my party, you have our best wishes on your success.

(ends)

1221 hrs

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1226 hours

SHRI CHITTA BASU (BARASAT): Sir, I rise to join the Prime Minister and other distinguished Members of this House to offer my hearty felicitations to you on the occasion of your elevation to the office of the Speaker of this great democratic institution.

Sir, we have seen you in various capacities in the States and also at the national level. We, as trade unionists and workers who have been working in the factories, mines and otherwise, cannot forget the role you did play when you had been the Labour Minister of our country. It has been rightly pointed out that your role has always been the role of a conciliator. Your role has always been the role of uniting the people, the working class and not dividing them. Here, in this House, the complexion is very varied. There are big national parties; there are small parties; there are also other small parties and tiny tiny groups. There are conflicts of interests; there are conflicts of class interests; there are various conflicts which are always reflected on the floor of this House. This floor is the mirror of different segments of the society and we cannot ignore this mirror. If we ignore this mirror, we ignore the nation as a whole. The working class of today is faced with great crisis and I expect that, in the coming days, the working class will have to work upon a massive struggle and those struggles are to be reflected here. With your experience in the past, I hope, believe and I am also confident that those movements and agitations of the working class and trade unions outside, in defence of their rights - economic, political and others - would also get sufficient attention of this House, particularly Sir, of your goodself.

Sir, I think you may be quite well aware of the millions of our tribals working in different parts of India; they are toiling; they are sweating and living hard lives. Sir, on your election to this exalted position, those teeming millions belonging to the tribals and minorities will feel greatly encouraged and enthused to build up their struggle and reach their right to live with honour and dignity of which they are deprived of.

Sir, you also represent an important religious minority. Minorities Sir, cannot be hushed up. Minorities have also their rights. A great democracy, the character of a democracy depends upon the degree of the guarantee to the minorities. I hope my friends sitting on this side would realise the importance of the minorities in our society. Ours is a society which is composite in nature and has got no unitary role to play. Society is multiple in nature and multifarious aspects are also there to be looked into.

Sir, I would say that North-East is really the most important strategic area of our nation. We feel today that the people of North-Eastern region are getting increasingly alienated. Your elevation to this position would also bring them to realise that India needs them and they also need India.

India also takes into account the hopes and aspirations of the millions of people in the north-eastern region. I hope and I believe that with your being in this exalted Office, this process of alienation of the north-eastern region would stop.

Sir, I represent a very small group in this House and naturally we are sometimes aggrieved. Aggrieved because we do not find adequate time to give expression to our feelings; to give expression to our views. Views are views. It is not regional; it is not partial; it is not small; it is not big. Views are views and views are to be expressed freely and fairly.

Sir, I hope and I believe and I am confident that with your nature, smiling all the while, we would also have smile on our face when we feel dejected, disappointed and suppressed. I hope that we would build up the traditions of this House and help us to maintain the decorum in this House. Once again, on behalf of my Party I convey my felicitations to you.

Thank you very much. (ends)

1232 hours

SHRI BIRENDRA PRASAD BAISHYA (MANGALDOI): Mr. Speaker, Sir, I am extremely happy today to whole-heartedly congratulate you on my behalf and on behalf of my Party, the Asom Gana Parishad. For the first time in the political history of India, the hon. Speaker of Lok Sabha has been elected from the north-eastern region.

Sir, today is the most significant day for the north-eastern region. The post of the Speaker is a neutral one. So, I am cent per cent confident that each and every Member of this august House would get an equal treatment from the hon. Speaker. We belong to the north-eastern region of our country. Our region is an extremely backward region and so I would like to request you to give special attention towards the solutions of the various problems of the north-eastern region.

Thank you very much.

(ends)

SHRI NARAYAN DATT TIWARI (NANITAL):

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SHRI P.C. THOMAS (MUVATTUPUZHA): Sir, I congratulate you on your unanimous election as the Speaker of this august assembly. Sir, with your long experience in the fields of politics, administration and Parliament and Legislative Assembly, I am sure you will become one among the best Speakers we have had. I am sure you will be able to get the support of each and every Member of this House. We find a very good quality in you - as has been expressed by most of the Members here -- that is, you are a good mediator and a negotiator. Above all, I feel you are a very good gentleman. Cardinal Newman once defined the word `gentleman' and according to him `a gentleman is one who does not inflict pain on others'. I do not think you can be that gentle to fit in that definition. If you are so gentle, Members of this House will have to be more gentle so as to cooperate with you in a manner to make this House a big success. I am sure, with your long vision and wide experience, you will be able to take into confidence all the Members of this House.

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