A few months later, on 21 August 1959, as the Government of India was preparing to raise the question of entry of China in the UN, at the UN session scheduled for 15 September that year, Atal moved a motion in the Lok Sabha. The motion said: ‘The opinion of this House is that the government should send the Tibetan issue to the UN. By this motion I would like the House to suggest to the government to also raise the Tibetan question at the UN session.’ The motion was defeated but Atal had drawn attention to a rather important issue.
