Shri S. A. Dange : I said I am not bothered about it.

Shri Y. B. Chavan : That means you have accepted it. You are not bothered about it. That means you have accepted that version.

Shri S. A. Dange : I did not care about it. (Interruption)

Shri Y. B. Chavan : Really, as an important leader, as a leader on the floor of the House, I think it was his duty as and when to oppose politically to oppose from a political angle the election or otherwise. We are prepared to stand on merit. If we are not proved by merit, we are prepared to be rejected and thrown away. It does not matter. But this personal attack by creating an image, a slur, is nothing but a game of character assassination.

One of my friends said, “we attacked some persons here and they were defeated.” This process of deceiving the people, of creating confusion, putting up rather a distorted image of the people, and trying to mislead the people at large and trying to achieve political results out of it is something which is not consistent with the idea of democracy, the idea of decent life that I have understood. I think I have tried to answer the general points raised. I do not want to meet every point that was raised.

I would only submit that we stand by the commitments that we have made. Whatever party has a majority, we will support them and give them our constructive co-operation. We wish them well.