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But what are the results of this connectivity? In the last few years, the Information Technology has been able to generate an export of Rs. 36,500 crore. Is it a real expectation? It is a very realistic estimation. It is $ 57 billion by 2008. How many jobs will be created and what about the equity it has been able to create?

In the same way, we have been successful in our automobile industry. Sir, you had been the Minister of Industry when you formulated the Automobile Policy. It has been one of the important sectors which India can claim a truly global in stature. Automobile components are now being exported world-wide. Many companies of the world are out-sourcing their automobile spare parts and components from India. It is creating an employment again to our people. It is our ability to be world leader in pharmaceuticals and biotechnology. This is another area in which our connectivity is now resulting into prosperity to many people and this is something extremely important. As a result of that, what does the outside world say? There is an article, which has been published in the Far Eastern Economic Review only about two months ago. It is written by Mr. Tom Holland. It says and I quote:-

The President’s address says and I quote :

"The chief threat to our internal security is external."

The external threat is obvious. It is there. It is glaring and must be, therefore, combated with determination. The whole country is one in this resolve. We have on our part extended broad support again and again to the Government to deal with cross-border terrorism. But, it serves the purpose of the Government to talk only about the external threat and gloss over the equally grave internal threat that is rearing its head due to the BJP’s own divisive agenda. The broader definition of security today must include social consolidation, internal unity, distributive social justice and countering all forms of religious and other extremism.

Over 40 months have passed ever since that Report had been tabled and yet the Government has not deemed it fit or important enough to brief the Parliament even once about the implementation of the recommendations contained in the Report of the Subrahmanyam Committee. Perhaps the Government is deeply embarrassed by what the Committee found, as to what exactly led to the Kargil war by way of intelligence failures. Unprecedented troop mobilisation on our Western borders continued for almost a year. The Deputy Prime Minister himself, speaking in this House on November 25th last year, virtually admitted that the massive military mobilisation involving, we are told, five lakh troops failed to meet our objectives. And I quote what the Home Minister himself said. He said:

The President’s Address rightly pays tributes to our brothers and sisters in Jammu and Kashmir for choosing the ballot over the bullet. Jammu and Kashmir has now a broad-based Government with a popular mandate and we now have before us an opportunity for bringing Jammu and Kashmir back on the path of peace and development.
But for this to happen, the Centre, of course, will have to extend its full support to the Coalition Government. I would like to hold this Government to the assurance given in the President’s Address, and I quote: