848 DR. BABASAHEB AMBEDKAR : WRITINGS AND SPEECHES
to nearly Rs. 200 crores. It is an extraordinary thing that as your revenue rises, your military expenditure also rises. My view was that the reverse should be the process, that your military expenditure ought to go down. If you can reduce the military expenditure by a modest sum of Rs. 50 crores, how much good we can do to our people ? We can apply this reduction of Rs. 50 crores in the Army Budget to river valley projects. The Damodar Valley Project could be completed within 3 years out of our revenue Budget instead of having to go to foreign countries for aid. If we could spend that amount of Rs. 50 crores out of the military Budget for the betterment of our own people, what amount of good we can achieve ? But I have not been able to understand why the Government of India has been consistently and regularly increasing the military Budget. Sir, it is an extraordinary thing from another point of view. We have been told that our foreign policy is a policy of peace and friendship. My hon. Friend, Diwan Chaman Lall, called it the Nehru doctrine. If that is the object of the Nehru doctrine, it is a welcome doctrine provided it was observed by all. Now, if the object of the foreign policy of this country is to maintain friendship and peace throughout the world, I want to know who are our enemies against whom we want to maintain this huge army at a huge cost of Rs. 197 crores.
Shri J. R. Kapoor (Uttar Pradesh) : Our next door neighbour.
Dr. B. R. Ambedkar: I do not know that. If we were informed that our relations with certain foreign countries were not happy, that there might be any time a danger to our safety and to our security, it would be possible for most of us to agree that rather than wait for the arrival of the danger, we should keep the Army ready so that in an emergency we may face the danger squarely. But we are told that we have no enemy at all in this world. Then, why this army is maintained, I do not quite know. Secondly, the only possible enemy, if one may use that world, is probably Pakistan. And that too, on account of Kashmir. Now, with regard to Kashmir, I hope that this House will have a full