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What Shri Atal Behari Vajpayeeji once said you may please recollect. Do not interrupt. 

MR. CHAIRMAN : No more. Please sit down.

          Hon. Member, B. Mahtab.

SHRI B. MAHTAB (CUTTACK): Mr. Chairman, I stand here to participate in the debate on the India-China relations.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Shri Mahtab, you will get eight minutes. Please try to restrict within that time.

SHRI B. MAHTAB : I would not like to participate, Sir. There is no point.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Eight minutes you are getting.

SHRI B. MAHTAB : I would like to put it on record. I gave a notice since the beginning of this Session.

MR. CHAIRMAN: You did not follow. The time is divided among Parties.          We will have to conclude.

SHRI B. MAHTAB : I know that we have to conclude by 5.30 p.m. and there is an important Memorial Lecture. But please give time. Otherwise, there is no point.

SHRI BISHNU PADA RAY (ANDAMAN & NICOBAR ISLANDS): This is an important debate. Please continue tomorrow also.

MR. CHAIRMAN: Please do not waste his time. Shri Mahtab, you may start, please.

SHRI B. MAHTAB : Rhetorical statements and ground realities indicate growing tensions between these two countries, two Asian giants. We have deployed Sukhois in the northeast. We are building roads to strategic positions - as far I remember, around twenty. And we are aware that more than 270 border incursions have taken place by Chinese army.

We have stopped persons traveling from China on business visa because they were manipulating it. They were skilled labourers and working here. In retaliation to that or not, I do not know, Chinese Government are now sticking a paper to the citizens of this country who hail from Jammu and Kashmir to which our Government has objected and are not allowing them to travel to China, specially the students. We understand that people who hail from Arunachal Pradesh are citizens of this country. In that respect the Chinese Government or China had its view and it is a very old view.

          We are aware what China is today. It is best to accept the India-China reality, and we should fashion our responses accordingly. The Chinese are never tired of proclaiming the new century as the century of Asia. Can the century of Asia prosper and grow if India and China are at loggerheads? … (Interruptions)

MR. CHAIRMAN: Mr. Mahtab, please take your seat. You have already spoken for more than 16 minutes. Please conclude now.

… (Interruptions)

SHRI B. MAHTAB : I would conclude by saying this. There are two or three issues before us today.