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to be spent on what the Andhras might regard as the permanent capital for their new State. I do not know whether the Hon. the Home Minister or the Hon. the Finance Minister who, I believe, in his most charitable way gives grants to anybody who wants to come and ask for a grant, is prepared to give five crores of rupees for a temporary capital and another five or ten crores for a permanent capital. That would certainly be a wonderful way of managing the finances of this country.
Then, Sir, looking at the financial position of the new State, it has been shown that the new State will begin with a deficit of Rs. 5 crores. Many optimistic Andhras who are more keen on having an Andhra State than on stability told the investigator—Mr. Justice Wanchoo—that, in their judgement there were a variety of means whereby they could bridge the gap and make the State self-sufficient.
Mr. Justice Wanchoo examined every one of the suggestions that were made to him by the various parties of the Andhra people; and he has, in unmistakable terms, said that all these are fertile imagination and that it is neither possible to increase the revenues of the new State, nor is it possible to reduce the expenditure; at the most, anything may happen either by the way of increasing the revenue or by the way of reducing the expenditure. Nonetheless, the new Andhra State will begin with a deficit of Rs. 2 crores. That is the least that the Andhras will have to face to begin with. Well, it is the concern of the Andhras whether they could make good deficit which may be Rs. 5 crores or which may be Rs. 2 crores; we have not much to say about it; it is for them.
Then there is a third point which I would like to put to my hon. Friend the Home Minister. It seems to me that my hon. Friend has not considered what I might call the demographic picture of the Andhra State. What is the social composition of this State ? When I am dealing with the social composition of Andhra, I beg of my Andhra friends not to mistake me. It is not that I am making the statement, which I am about to make, by way of accusation against the Andhras, but it is a general proposition which I am enunciating and which I shall develop at the conclusion of my speech.