“The issue of social justice is an issue of people’s hearts, it is important to pay attention to this.” – Shri Mallikarjun Kharge

Highlights of the Motion of Thanks on the President’s address in Rajya Sabha by Congress President and Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Shri Mallikarjun Kharge on July 01, 2024.

I am thankful to you for your generosity in giving me the opportunity to discuss the Motion of Thanks. The President is the most important part of the Parliament, we respect him/her a lot. The content of the address is government-owned, the government side had to make it a vision statement. It was necessary to tell how challenges will be dealt with, but there is no such content in it. This year, the President’s first address was on January 31 and the second address was on June 27, after the formation of the 18th Lok Sabha.

The first speech was for elections and the second one is just a copy of the same. There is no direction, no vision. We were sure that the President will definitely say something on the challenges of the Constitution and Democracy. We were sure that she will give some concrete message for the weakest sections, but we were very disappointed that there is nothing in it for the poor, for the Dalits, for the backward, for the minorities. Like the last time, this is only an eulogy and our Dwivedi sahib praised so much... sometimes there is confusion between Dwivedi, Trivedi, Chaturvedi... please forgive me in this because hailing from the South, I am not very familiar with these words. So he praised a lot and he is very adept at praising and he is a great lover of Urdu, but he also hates those people equally. Because he doesn’t have any RSS background, but ever since he joined BJP, he keeps praising RSS, keeps praising Modi saheb again and again and most of all, he condemns people like Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru ji, Mahatma Gandhi etc.

So, I have heard many things in which basic issues have been ignored. This government is already an expert in hiding the failures and it is also not right on our part to keep talking about them… The President said that we should work together, this century is India’s century and the coming era belongs to India. No one can deny this sentiment, but our experience of 10 years is that these things have remained only in speeches, they have not been implemented on the ground and in fact, the opposite has happened. The Constitution gave us the right to adult franchise. This time, the voting was less than that of 2019 but the poor and rural voters participated with greater enthusiasm. I congratulate all the voters on my behalf, thank them, they voted in large numbers in the villages but in the cities where there are educated people, rich people… those people turned up in very less numbers.

The Chairman had issued a special message for his voting and said that in democracy, the people are the masters and supreme. I agree that the message of the President is correct, but this is the first election in the history of the country in which the issue of protecting the Constitution has become a concern. BJP gave the slogan of crossing 400, many of their leaders even said in the other House... many leaders also said that BJP will change the Constitution and they said this repeatedly and even in the beginning, in 2014, Bhagwat ji, who is not a member of this House, I do not want to take his name... he said that BJP will change the Constitution. This is the reason why the ‘INDIA’ Alliance had to run a campaign to save the Constitution. The public felt that other issues could be dealt with later but only if the Constitution is saved, the democracy will remain and elections will also be held and all of us will be able to sit here.

Chairman ji, in this fight, the common citizens supported the opposition - the poor, farmers, labourers, the oppressed, the exploited, women, the youth supported us all and they did a great job of saving democracy. Chairman ji, even now there are people with a mindset contrary to social justice. To conclude this fight, it is necessary to uproot such ideology and for this we all will have to work hard. Chairman ji, this session has the specialty that due to fear of the mandate, the people of the ruling party are chanting about the Constitution, but there are also people who object to the slogan ‘Jai Samvidhaan’ in the Parliament. Such people are also in this House! Such a party is also in this House! That is why the issue of protecting this Constitution still remains. The people of India have seen and tested its real intentions, thinking and motives, that is why wearing the Constitution on your forehead will not work, rather you will have to follow its values and only then can you do something.

Chairman ji, in the past decade, parliamentary institutions and traditions have been continuously weakened, the opposition has been ignored, we had to constantly struggle to put forth our views in the Parliament... because in their thinking, there was such a Parliament in which there is no opposition. If they had the right thinking, then for the first time in the 17th Lok Sabha, the post of Deputy Speaker would not have been vacant and you talk of democracy! Those who talk of democracy... legally there is a provision in the Constitution, like Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Chairman, Deputy Chairman, but you kept that post vacant for five years. What kind of democratic way is this, are you working under the Constitution? And you say outside that we do everything according to the Constitution, but when you see the work, you do the complete opposite.

Chairman Sir, in this very Rajya Sabha, the Prime Minister had boldly challenged the opposition by saying that ‘one person is stronger than all’, but I want to ask how many people are stronger than one person today in the Parliament and here... but the election results have shown that the Constitution of the country and the people are stronger than all.

There is no place for arrogant slogans in democracy and the statues of 15 great personalities including that of the Father of the Nation Mahatma Gandhi, Constitution maker Babasaheb Ambedkar and Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj were removed from their place and placed in the back corner. Lakhs of people used to come there to pay homage… Since protests use to take place there, that is why they removed the statues from there and placed them at the back and whose statue should be removed – the one who gave us freedom – Mahatma Gandhi, the one who made the Constitution – Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, Chhatrapati Maharaj, you remove the statues of such people and put them at the back! You do this, and we fought against it. Sir, when I was a student, we fought to install Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s statue in front of the parliament. There was a big movement in 1963-64. At that time, our speaker of Punjab, Sardar Hukam Singh ji, when he came to Gulbarga, two-three thousand people surrounded him and told him that it is necessary to install Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar’s statue there because he gave this country the Constitution by making it and he worked in terms of equality, social justice... then we were sentenced to 8 days each. They were not there at that time... so we were sentenced to 8 days each and it was one among the 12 demands. Sir, we had got such works done in our childhood, in our student life after fighting and struggling, you did it but now you have taken it away and kept it behind and on April 14, thousands of people come there for darshan, they come from one door and go from the other door.

Now you have put them in front of my chamber. I wake up every day and take a look at them at home, but you brought all those statues and placed them near me, placed them in front of my gate... So Sir, I appeal to you that the statue of Gandhiji, the statue of Babasaheb Ambedkar, the statue of Shivaji Maharaj should be kept at the same place where they were. It would cause no harm to anybody. I will appeal to you. I will appeal again and again and I request you with folded hands that do not insult and humiliate them. If you insult them, it will be an insult to 50 crore SC-ST, Dalit, deprived and tribal people, it will be an insult to the country, it will be an insult to the Constitution. So you are a lawyer, a good leader, that is why I request you to keep the statues there. Sir, to change their place... There is a committee for all these photos that are put inside the Parliament and in that committee there is also the opposition leader, there are other members, you and the speaker. Where to seat them, how to seat them, is decided after a meeting. But no meeting, nothing like that happened this time. It is like authority over rule - make them lie down anywhere, pick them up from anywhere, make them sit anywhere!

Look, I request Rijiju sahab - the statues you have installed, who fought for them and at which place to install them. This was decided at that time. If you change them and bring them to the same place, I respect Mahatma Gandhi and other leaders too, but you make others sit with Mahatma Gandhi ji, it was decided to make them sit in front of Babasaheb Ambedkar and they were made to sit at the same place. You make everything seem so that we criticize someone, separate someone... you say this, that is why I tell you that they do not know about this committee... you should read and see who are the members, take their advice and then make them sit at the same place. Sir, I will request you this again and again.

Sir, the Prime Minister just said that at this time people don’t want slogans, they want meaning. For the last 10 years, the opposition has been telling you to do some work, don’t just keep sloganeering, what else? What kind of slogans did they give- ‘Achhe Din Aayenge’, ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’, ‘Make in India’, ‘Act East Policy’, ‘Beti Bachao-Beti Padhao’, ‘Sabka Saath-Sabka Vikas’, ‘400 Paar’ Sir, understand that you have now drowned, so kindly leave it. So, these are slogans and Modi ji is an expert in giving slogans. Just giving slogans, confusing people by talking sweetly- this is what he is doing. So now the person who shows sympathy for the poor, for women, I ask sir, Manipur has been burning for a year. How women and people there are being harassed and destroyed and homes are being ruined, you should go and visit Manipur at least once, you should go and visit Manipur. You went to 14 countries, gave hundreds of speeches in elections but why did you not go to Manipur, why did you not reach there and you talk about ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas’! You supported only a few people, developed some and destroyed the poor. What is the reality of all these slogans, this country knows very well and Chairman ji, the 2024 election was an election that broke ego in the words of the common people. 17 ministers of the previous government lost the elections. We were demanding the removal of the minister who trampled the farmers with a jeep, the public trampled him and he was finished and as a poet has said-

“Kabhi ghamand mat karna, taqdeer badalti rahti hai, Sheesha vahi rahta hai, bas tasveer badalti rahti hai.”

So,such arrogance and they give such speeches. This arrogant, arrogant Alliance, they used to call us ‘Arrogant’. Your arrogance has been shattered and today you will not have to raise that slogan of ‘400 paar’, now you are ‘200 paar’, you have come with great difficulty. I had also said in my last speech that the BJP government does politics of diverting the attention of the public from important issues. When we talk about farmers, Modi ji talks about releasing buffaloes. When we talk about BJP’s thinking of dividing the country, Modi ji talks about Aurangzeb and Mughals. When we talk about unemployment, paper leaks, Modi ji remembers mangalsutra and mujra. When we talk about inflation, BJP starts talking about inflation in foreign countries, leaving our own country. When the opposition talks about the public, Modi ji starts speaking about his ‘Mann ki Baat’ and while speaking these things, he reached here, he forgot to do his work, he got busy only in speaking his ‘Mann ki Baat’.

I want to tell the Prime Minister to answer today’s issues. The public is capable of taking a decision on what happened in history, leave it to them, do not go on repeating this, do not talk arrogantly and do not try to provoke people. If you do this, then your condition will keep deteriorating. Sir, the President has said in paragraph 26 of his speech. What has the President said - In today’s era of communication revolution, disruptive forces are hatching conspiracies to weaken democracy and create rifts in society. They are resorting to misinformation to spread rumours and confuse the public. What he said is absolutely correct. I fought many elections in my political life but for the first time I saw that the Prime Minister gave such statements in this election. The dignity of the entire country was greatly hurt because of him.

The Prime Minister tried his best to weaken democracy, divide society, spread misinformation but he failed. Telling lies on every issue, distorting things, dividing people in the name of religion, politics, state and language... this has happened for the first time at the level of the Prime Minister. No Prime Minister has done such a thing before. This has adversely affected our reputation on the global platform. You people made Modi Ji a Vishwaguru. He used to talk about Vishwaguru, but his truth is revealed by these few headlines of the world’s major newspapers, whether he was a Vishwaguru or what! France 24 and a bad speech, but no surprise. This is what the French newspapers called him. The Washington Post said- Modi accused of using abusive language against Indian Muslims in election rally. CNN said- Modi’s Muslim comments deepened the allegations of ‘hate speech’ in India’s mega election- Al Jazeera said- ‘Infiltrators’: Modi accused of anti-Muslim and hate speech amidst India’s elections... The Guardian said- Narendra Modi was accused of spreading tension during voting in India. Recently, it was even reported in some newspapers that there has been an alarming increase in hate speeches and demolition of houses and places of worship of minority community in India. That is, we are not saying all these things, people of the world are saying this to Vishwaguru. We considered him Vishwaguru, but then what is all this?

So that is why Sir, if you exaggerate about a person then it has such a bad impact that it also affects the country. So that is why I say- the things he said in the elections, were very hateful things and that is why I am giving an example in front of you. Whatever was said in the elections, people understood that the person who has been in power for 10 years has nothing to tell about the achievements of the government, that is why hysterical things are being said and they are saying it. Chairman Sir, the chair remains, power comes and goes... but there should not be talk of dividing the country, misleading the country and lying on every issue in the greed for power and this is what Modi sahab is doing. Sir, I have all the speeches that the Prime Minister has given during the elections, what kind of speeches they are... I do not want to talk much about them. I have about 200 of his speeches... where and how he spoke, what he said... but I do not want to take much of your time. So I do not even want to read them.

Sir, I would like to quote three statements of Modi Ji, request you to keep them in the proceedings. You say to collect this wealth, that is why I have brought the entire cuttings, if you want to see. Congress is preparing to bulldoze the Ram temple: Modi. Sir, there are many ways of authentication. See, on the basis of the point I am making, you understand many papers a little better. All newspapers, TV, videos, understand all this. See what else was said - to whom will these Congress people collect wealth and distribute it, who said - Modi Ji said that it will be distributed to those who have more children, it will be distributed to the infiltrators, will the money earned by your hard work be given to the infiltrators - these are his words, I am saying the same words. Sir, the money earned will be given to the infiltrators, we will settle the accounts of the gold of mothers and sisters and distribute it!

Sir, secondly, they are eyeing to snatch the property of our mothers and sisters by changing the law. Such a game is being played about their ‘mangalsutra’, they have their eyes on that too…, I am answering this and what else will be authenticated. You have said more, oh I have many examples…one thing- they insulted the voter, insulted Congress, RJD, SP, every party, people who were part of the Alliance, what did they say about even TMC, I will tell you, so if they want to dance in front of their vote bank then do that sir, what did they say in the end that if they want to dance in front of their vote bank then do this sir - this language is the language of the Prime Minister! I am speaking the language of the Prime Minister.

Sir, everyone has heard what I have quoted, everyone knows it. Look, I am not saying anything untrue here. The Prime Minister is the leader of this country and I have put his Amritvani here from his mouth. If you feel this is not true then I will send it to you, then you read it, even tell me after that. Sir, people who speak the truth often speak very little, but people who lie speak continuously, all the time. There is no need for more truth after one truth but after one lie, hundreds of lies are told as a habit. So, this is the saying of Modi sahab, our Prime Minister. I repeated that saying here. If you or he felt hurt then I apologize. So, I have told the truth in this way, that is why there is nothing else to defend the truth. It is the truth and to back a lie one has to tell 100 lies.

Chairman Sir, many such statements came in the elections on which the President did not express concern. The Election Commission, while announcing the elections on March 16, 2024, had said that caste or communal sentiments will not be used to get votes. I read all this, what are those secular words, what are they - caste basis, religious basis and language basis, whatever it is, you can see, I have placed it before you and the people of the country must also be listening to this. Sir, the PM talked about temple, mosque, Muslim and other religions 421 times, talked about dividing the society, talked about Muslim, Pakistan, minority 224 times, linked the Manifesto of Congress to a particular religion, he linked our Manifesto to a particular religion! In 75 years, Prime Ministers belonging to different parties campaigned for elections, but never seen anything like this. In the 77 days of elections, Congress gave 117 complaints to the Election Commission, out of which 14 complaints were against the Prime Minister. No action was taken on this and I am saying this after counting and you know this is the truth. And the Election Commission is a constitutional institution, people’s trust will remain intact due to its impartiality, but these things that have happened, which the Prime Minister said in his speech, we complained about it, no action has been taken on it till date.

Sir, during the elections, the accounts of the Congress Party were frozen, just before the elections, we received income tax notices worth crores. You talk about level-playing field and when the elections come, the accounts of the opposition party are closed. This is an election, this is democracy, this is the truth. You tried to harass and trouble people in every way but people did not get scared, they have embarrassed you today by giving you a befitting reply and I want to say one thing, Sir, while our accounts were frozen, the ruling party’s ‘donate, take business’, give electoral bonds and contracts, they called them at that time, threatened them and took electoral bonds from them. This scheme is illegal, they earned thousands of crores of rupees for their party through illegal means and they did all this and on the other hand they talk about Democracy, talk about the Constitution, talk about people’s welfare, to what extent is this true, to what extent is it correct, you can decide. Now at least Sir, I want some change from you after this election. Why do I want it, because after these events that you have seen for three years, three and a half years, I believe that at least you will support the truth.

Sir, institutions like ED, IT, CBI were also misused to extort money from companies and Sir, these institutions targeted only opposition leaders and those who spoke the truth. If this is not an insult to the Constitution, then what is? They worked to topple the governments elected by the people and to buy and break the MLAs, this is an insult to the Constitution. I will present all their documents here in front of you in two-four days, please give me permission, otherwise my flow will break and they will keep shouting, you will give them permission.

Sir, I did not come to this House to insult anyone, if they talk of incitement, then I will believe it only if such a thing has come up. Sir, they worked to topple the governments elected by the people and buy and break the MLAs. If this is not an insult to the Constitution, then what is it? How many governments did you break where we had a majority - you broke Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, Manipur, you broke the government everywhere and later you even put two Chief Ministers of the ‘INDIA’ Alliance in jail. Jharkhand High Court granted bail to Hemant Soren and said that in view of the evidence, Hemant Soren is not guilty of the alleged crimes, this was told to him and if someone comes out, Delhi Chief Minister came out, then they implicate him in another case. Because if someone does not listen to you, then you have many ways to take action. To harass or out of jealousy. This party will come forward, another party will come, we are getting weaker day-by-day, put them in, put Hemant in, put so and so in the jail. The work they are doing is against Democracy, against the Constitution and the public will never forgive them.

Sir, second thing- he used to abuse the 10-year old coalition government, Modi sahab used to say that it is a khichdi government and used to say that due to coalition governments, India’s image has been tarnished in the world. The country has lost 30 years. He used to say that there is no need for a coalition government. The people of the country forced him to form a coalition government by bringing him in minority. Why do you say such things, why do you talk arrogantly? You are now saying NDA government, otherwise you did not even say BJP. This is Modi’s government, Modi will run it, everything is possible if Modi is here. Sir, he even said this. The PM fought the entire election abusing the ‘INDIA’ coalition, showed hatred even in taking its correct name. Now that your coalition government has been formed, tell us- what should we say to you.

Sir, the Prime Minister has said in many election rallies that the last 10 years were just a trailer, the real picture is yet to come. How the picture of the Prime Minister is going to be can be gauged from the last one month’s happenings. NEET Under Graduation- paper leak, UGC NET- paper leak, NEET PG- cancelled, CSIR NET- cancelled, horrific train accident, three major terrorist attacks in Jammu and Kashmir, Ram Mandir leak, roofs of three airports collapsed in three days, five bridges collapsed in Bihar in 15 days, toll tax increased, historical fall in rupee and in the latest cases, cases of rigging, paper leak and corruption came to light in NEET, UGC NET, and then the papers were cancelled.

Because of this, the future of 30 lakh children has been ruined, their parents are worried. If this continues, no child will move forward and in these seven years, papers have been leaked 70 times in the country and the future of two crore youth has been ruined... This is a question on the entire system. Today the paper was held, tomorrow it was cancelled. So how many times to read, how many times to write, how... tell me, nothing comes from the government on this. When we raise questions, then they say that the opposition parties only want to create ruckus. You need to fix it, who has stopped you? You claim everything but you cannot claim the paper leak, which is related to the future of every child.

On May 5, news of paper leak came from Patna and Godhra, the government kept hiding it. The education minister refused to accept the paper leak. NTA was given a clean chit. The accused were caught in police investigation. When the government faced embarrassment, it woke up to action. The paper leak was linked to many states including Bihar, Gujarat, Haryana, UP. The school in Haryana where the marks were messed up is linked to a BJP leader. In UP, the name of an NDA leader is coming up, who is involved in many paper leak cases. There are thousands of NEET coaching centers in Kota. This is not being discussed under anyone’s pressure, because there are many people who are going to put pressure, there are many centers in Kota where students study and they are private ones and so that this irregularity does not come to light, they are not letting it be discussed... There might be many people with vested interests in this. Sir, please investigate on your own. No sir, you are not allowing authentic discussions to take place. Sir, the Education Minister told the media on June 20, 2024, that the law has been notified, whereas the notification happened on June 21, two days after that the rules were made, only cover-up work is going on. Such cases have come to light in the last several years. If the government had taken some steps, these cases would have stopped. Therefore, our demand is that not only paper leak and NTA, there should be transparency in the entire education system under the supervision of the Supreme Court. If this happens under the supervision of the Supreme Court, it will be good for the future as well. No matter which government it is, until you do not make clear rules in this, until you do not look after the safety of the children, then this will be a great injustice to them, this is my opinion. Sir, but these are my thoughts, this is my saying. If you say something different, you are independent, I am also independent, that is why the country got independence. There is Democracy, there is Constitution, everyone has the freedom to speak, you have it, I have it too.

For the institution of our republic, education was considered the biggest tool for prosperity. After independence, the first IIT was established in Kharagpur within two years. The UPA government reserved 27 percent seats for OBC students in some educational institutions including IIT and IIM. We started Maulana Azad Fellowship, students from weaker sections got a chance to go to these institutions. The result of all this was that today doctors, engineers, scientists of India get respect and jobs all over the world and their degrees are respected. Therefore, I want to say that if degrees are to be respected, then such things like scams, frauds should be stopped. If the current situation does not improve, the credibility of our education system will be in danger all over the world. Every degree will be doubted and people will look at every degree with suspicion. So, in these ten years, you have also started the education system, if you say so, sir, don’t think so, the government did. Sir, in the last ten years, our education system has been taken over by the people of BJP and RSS. The Vice-Chancellors of universities, professors, NCERT, CBSE, all are taken over by RSS and people with good ideas have no place there. The minister himself comes from that ideology, so I would say that the PM should take responsibility for this. You see the list of appointments, how many are filled in the secretariat, how many people are from BC (backward class), which caste people are there and which caste professors are there, how many are there in the central university, bring the list. Some are poor in it, some are backward in it, you see, this is what I am saying. If you reject this statement of mine, then this is not yours...

This ideology is dangerous for the country, that is why I want this. They are Manuvadis, that is why these people have no place here, they are Manuvadis. They do not want to educate women, do not want to educate Dalits, do not allow them to study Sanskrit and if such people get a place here, if you select them carefully, then the education system in this country will be destroyed, you will destroy the purpose of the Constitution, this is my opinion.

Look, Sir, I am not saying this. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel also said that these people are associated with RSS and everyone in this country knows that RSS people killed Mahatma Gandhi by provoking Godse and these are the same people. You can say it hundred times, I will say it hundred times that RSS and you (BJP) together are destroying and harassing this country.

Sir, by bringing an unplanned Tughlaqi scheme like Agniveer, the morale of the youth has been broken. There was a big movement of youth all over the country regarding this, but you did not listen to anyone. My demand is that the Agniveer scheme should be abolished. You know sir, you come from Rajasthan. The youth of Haryana, Punjab, Himachal depend on this. You come from a farmer’s family, who on one hand does not get any other job, one is farming, or if there is none, then joining the army is the only option. Will you let your children do this? I ask you sir, I do not ask them, because if I ask them, they immediately get angry. They never fought for the country, never died for the country and they teach us the lesson of patriotism.

Look sir, we made it, we made IIT, we made UGC, we made Agriculture University, we brought Green Revolution, we brought White Revolution. Every single child has studied in the institutions we had started, not here in RSS. So what are they teaching us?

We gave 47 percent participation. We gave reservation to SC-ST, we gave reservation to tribals, what have you done? You only talk about breaking and dividing. Sir, Modi ji promised ‘one rank, one pension’ in Haryana in 2014. But you are on ‘no rank, no pension’. Sainik schools were built in government sector. While giving them to private sector, they were given to RSS people and Vrindavan, UP, Solan, Himachal, Rohtak, Haryana, all these were given. Sir, it was handed over to them.

Look Sir, this is my opinion. This opinion will remain as long as there is casteism and untouchability in this country. If we keep handing over all this to the private sector, then where will the children of the poor, deprived, Dalit, tribal and backward classes study? Let the army remain the army, there are many topics to do politics on in this country. Every 15 minutes a major crime against Dalits takes place and every day six Dalit women are raped. These are not just numbers. These are real people who have been facing discrimination for years. Even today the situation has not improved. I just want to draw the country’s attention towards some cases.

In July 2023, a BJP leader in Madhya Pradesh urinated on the face of a tribal. In 2023, a leader from Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh beat an elderly tribal with ‘chappals’ (slippers) in public. In 2023, a Dalit man in Morbi, Gujarat was beaten up by people for demanding his salary and was also forced to pick up sandals with his mouth. In 2023, a Dalit youth was beaten up for drinking water in a shop in Damoh, Madhya Pradesh. In 2024, a Dalit youth was beaten up and taken off a horse during a wedding in Gandhinagar, Gujarat. In Bareilly, UP, a Dalit youth was beaten up by two home guards. In Sagar, Madhya Pradesh, a brother and uncle were beaten to death on charges of sexual harassment. Then a Dalit woman also died. In 2024, a Dalit youth died in Firozabad jail in UP. In 2024, a Dalit youth was beaten with a stick in Chhatarpur, Madhya Pradesh. June, 2024, the son of a BJP MLA is accused of beating a Dalit youth in Junagadh, Gujarat.

Sir, I thought it necessary to mention these incidents so that the country could understand that this is also a reality of 21st century India. Chairman, the issue of social justice is an issue of people’s hearts, it is important to pay attention to this. That is why I put these things before you.

There is a demand for caste census for a long time, but the government is not doing it, but if this caste census is done, then everyone’s needs will be fulfilled. This will help in assessing the condition of different communities, and strategies to overcome challenges can be made from this. The more delay there is on this issue, the more it will harm the interests of the poor and weaker sections. Sir, Chairman, you come from a farmer’s family. You know how their condition is. The condition of farmers is worse today than before. Who had promised to double the income of farmers by 2022, but on the contrary, their cost of farming has increased. Ministry of Statistics Program Implementation’s Situation Assessment Survey of 2018-19, this is not mine Sir, let me read it once more, if you see Ministry of Statistics Program Implementation’s Situation Assessment Survey of 2018-19, you will know that a farmer earns only 27 rupees a day from farming. This is from the Statistics Department, not mine.

Farmer organizations across the country are demanding to make MSP guarantee law. You have formed a committee on this and make MSP guarantee law, take initiative. Opposition parties are ready to support the government on this.

Big threat to the national security of the country - three consecutive terrorist attacks took place in Jammu and Kashmir in a single month. Manipur is burning since May 3, 2023. Rahul ji stood with the people of Manipur. ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ started from Manipur, MPs of INDIA Alliance went to Manipur. The government of Parliament could have listened to their experience, but the government was busy in political gains, concern for Manipur was not shown in the address, so you were wiped out there.

Recently, RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat Ji gave advice on Manipur. You don’t listen to us, RSS people are speaking the truth for the first time, listen to them at least. Manipur has been burning for a year, no one is accountable. Sir, he spoke just day before yesterday. Look at this, Sir, you listen, these are not my words. Mohan Bhagwat is saying that they did not say anything on Manipur, I say with folded hands. I did not say it, RSS’ Mohan Bhagwat Ji said it. I see, I read their founders, from Guruji, from Sudarshan to all their leaders, and Deoras was with them during emergency, I remember the names because they are sitting to destroy the society. That is why his name is so prominently in my mind.

Sir, Chairman ji, in the meantime a big scam has come to light, which the government is trying to suppress. Sir, I am not talking to you, I am talking to the RSS. Sir, you should not speak when they speak. On May19, the Prime Minister said that the stock market is going to grow rapidly. The Home Minister asked people to buy shares before June 04. Sir, what do they do, sometimes they take out the heart from our body, sometimes they take out the brain! So that is why it becomes a little difficult. Chairman ji, in the meantime a big scam has come to light, which the government has tried to suppress. On 19 May, the Prime Minister said that the stock market is going to grow rapidly. He told the Home Minister to buy shares before 4 June. They do marketing of many companies. He used such language. Sir, the exit poll came on June 01 and on June 03, all the records of the stock market were broken but on June 04, the stock market fell completely. Investors suffered a loss of 30 lakh crores. Who is responsible? The Prime Minister and the Home Minister are responsible. Will you teach them a lesson for losing so many people’s money? Look at June 04, what do you see, everyone fell down with a great thud!

Sir, in the end I would like to say a few things about the Indian Railways, the lifeline of the country. Recently the Kanchenjunga Express crashed, before that the Balasore accident happened. Our railways carry passengers equal to the population of Australia every day and leave the country aside, the train did not go to receive your father. There was no airport in Gulbarga, so we... look, in 1970, his father, we, all of us were put in jail. 144, all of us at that time, so look, in 1971 when Chandrashekhar, Mohan Dharia, Krishnakant and these people... the group, ours came to Gulbarga. They broke 144 and I was also the law President there, so they put us in jail, they were also put in jail for one or two hours, then later they were released. So, we had to come to Gulbarga four times, there was no plane, there was only train. So don’t say anything. So, I respect you because of your father. Sir, our railways carry passengers equal to the population of Australia every day. On one hand, the country is being shown dreams of high-speed trains and bullet trains. On the other hand, the government is unable to ensure the safety of citizens. When we raise questions on any accident, the answer we get is that a number of accidents happened even in your time, they are counted. You need to count the good things you do, what happened in the past, the country does not progress by repeating the same thing.

It would be better if you first fill the more than three lakh vacancies in the railways. SC-ST will get jobs in it and I would especially request you that the government is not filling the vacancies, there are lakhs of vacancies.

It is beyond government’s understanding. The government thinks about a few rich people. Inflation has spoiled the budget of the poor. The rising prices of petrol-diesel, LPG cylinders, fertilizers, pesticides, milk products have also spoiled the household budget and I request you that the government should pay attention to such important things, but instead of that, it is not your job to just respond and interrupt. When we are in opposition, we show what your shortcomings are. You lie, you lie to hide your shortcomings. How many lies will you tell and that is why I say that by telling so many lies you have become the leader of liars.

Sir, Modi Ji’s slogan in the 2014 Lok Sabha elections was, “inflation will decrease, income will increase”. But he has made life difficult for the people of villages, poor people, farmers, labourers. He has made it more expensive by imposing GST on everyday things and the people who are doing this, the people who are saying this to us, I would request you, first do your work, then tell us about your achievements and say it is yours.

Sir, I will present a quote of Gandhi before you, I will read it. Chairman ji, Gandhi ji had said, “I will try to build such an India in which even the poorest of the poor will feel that this is his country. His voice will be important in this. There will be no discrimination of high and low. Women will also get rights like men.” We have to think together that how far we have progressed in the direction of the vision that the Father of the Nation had set.

In the end, before ending my speech, I would like to request that many things have been said about Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru as told by our leaders from Lucknow. Trivedi sahab told me. Arbitrary laws were passed, these are all things, I do not want to talk much about them. Lastly, I will say my own things. Sir, in this very House, a speaker from BJP, I am not taking his name, otherwise he will leave again. In this very House, a speaker from BJP said some insulting things about the first Prime Minister and great warrior Nehru ji and they are in the proceedings. If the people of BJP had read Atal ji, they would not have shown such venomous sentiments. On August 17, 1994, Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji had said, Nehru ji had immediately decided to remove his assistant M.O. Mathai on the demand of the opposition. Nehru ji said in the House that when an important part of the House feels that something must be done, then it is not at all appropriate for the majority to ignore the wishes of the House. Not only this, the speech that Atal Ji gave in Rajya Sabha on May 19, 1964, on Nehru Ji’s demise was from his heart and not vindictive words like yours. He had said- “Humanity is sad today. Its worshipper has slept. Peace is restless today. Its protector is gone. Dalits have lost their support, the apple of everyone’s eye has gone. A worshipper of unrest, but a pioneer of revolution” - these are not my words, but Vajpayee Ji’s. “He was a worshipper of non-violence, but was in favour of fighting with every weapon to protect freedom and honour. He was a supporter of individual freedom, but was committed to bringing economic equality.”

This is a long speech of Atal Ji. I will briefly tell you a few things. That personality, that spirit of taking along even the opponents. Sir, let me read further… That personality, that spirit of taking along even the opponents, that gentlemanliness, that greatness, will probably not be seen in the near future and we have nothing but respect in our hearts for his patriotism and his unwavering courage. These are the words of Vajpayee Ji and if you read in your proceedings, then Atal Ji’s ideology was different from Nehru Ji’s thinking. But RSS has been doing the work of character assassination of Nehru Ji for decades by continuously discussing negative things. Many workers of the Sangh who are in Parliament and the government are also doing the same. Nehru Ji was certainly born in a rich family, but in the freedom struggle he was in jail for 3,259 days – for almost 9 years! Nehru Ji became the Congress President in 1929. So, he had started working on Fundamental Rights and Economic Policy. A resolution was passed on this in the Karachi session of the Congress, but the RSS did not like this vision. In a letter to the Chief Ministers in December 1947, Nehru ji warned that we have a lot of evidence to show that the RSS is an organization of the nature of a private army. It is moving forward on the Nazi rhyme and ‘although their leaders openly say that they are not a political body, their policy and program is based on political and extremely communal and violent activities.’

I did not say this, the letter that Jawaharlal Nehru had written to the Chief Minister and what Atal Bihari Vajpayee had said about Nehru, all this is there. He belonged to Jansangh. Well, if they had leaders like RSS and Vajpayee, then this situation would not have arisen. Words like ‘Mangalsutra’, taking buffalo, taking land and ‘Mujra’ would not have come up. This is different, that is different, so do not compare them with each other.

Your only job is to create a divide, our job is to Unite. I end my speech with these words. Namaskar!