In this episode of Punchline Advertising and Marketing, veteran Mr. Tarun Chauhan speaks about PM Modi's silence on the Manipur issue and the floods that created havoc in the country.
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00:00 Hello, how are you?
00:17 Another day, another show.
00:22 The last show, I've got some fabulous response, which I spoke about hatred and branding.
00:30 Lots of feedback, lots of messages.
00:34 So I guess what I'm saying is not sounding bad.
00:42 Today is going to be slightly different from what I've been doing in the past.
00:48 I think it's time all of us need to start doing what I'm doing, what I'm going to do.
00:56 You know, one of the big questions that we keep asking ourselves, what happens to the
01:03 taxpayers' money?
01:04 Where does it go?
01:06 And one of the biggest expenses in this country is the running of the parliament.
01:14 We have a huge parliament in Delhi, where four, five, four, two people sit.
01:19 They come from all parties.
01:20 There's a ruling party and there's an opposition party.
01:25 For the last four years, three to four years, to the best of my memory, I have not seen
01:32 the parliament function.
01:33 And it's not functioning for reasons I'm not interested.
01:39 I don't care.
01:40 You have a building, you have people who come there.
01:47 Those people are provided with places to stay, with staff, secretary, expensive stuff, huge
01:56 bungalows, opulent lifestyle, which is all our money, completely our money.
02:07 What do they do?
02:08 They go to the parliament, they yell and shout for 15, 20 minutes.
02:14 Parliament is adjourned and life goes on.
02:17 I think it is ridiculous.
02:18 There's no accountability.
02:19 There's absolutely no sense of responsibility.
02:24 The parliament has to be run by the ruling party.
02:29 I am not saying this.
02:30 People like Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj said it when Manmohan Singh was the prime
02:35 minister.
02:36 The same principle applies to these fellows.
02:39 Whoever is in the power, it is their job to broker peace and run the parliament.
02:47 This whole sham of winter session and monsoon session needs to stop if the parliament is
02:53 not going to function.
02:57 As the parliament is functioning, critical stuff needs to be discussed.
03:02 Today in India, whatever we say and whatever we do, the most critical subject for discussion
03:12 is the Manipur story.
03:16 I am not going to mince words on this.
03:19 I am a father of two daughters.
03:23 I am a person who believes that women need to be respected.
03:29 That is it, full stop.
03:30 There is no debate on that.
03:31 Women need to be respected.
03:33 What happened in Manipur was disgusting, ridiculous and absolutely humiliating as an Indian.
03:44 Just to be more specific, what happened in Manipur is a society issue.
03:51 It is not a community issue.
03:56 The government of India keeps mixing up community and society issues.
04:00 Society is when a bunch of boys get together and misbehave.
04:04 Society is when the whole society misbehaves.
04:06 Thousand people were walking bare in the stool, naked women in Manipur.
04:11 You can't compare that incident with anything in the world.
04:15 It is shameful.
04:16 It is terrible.
04:17 It is horrible.
04:18 To keep storing the parliament because they want to discuss two other issues, similar
04:23 issues, I think is chocolate cheese.
04:26 They are just not discussing the parliament.
04:30 Why do you have the parliament there?
04:31 Shut it, break it down.
04:32 Don't have it.
04:33 If the most important issue in the country is not going to be discussed in the parliament,
04:38 then why have the parliament?
04:41 And more importantly, there is a Prime Minister.
04:45 He is the administrative head of this country.
04:47 He needs to come in the parliament and talk.
04:49 It is not his fault.
04:53 It may not be his fault.
04:56 But you cannot hide.
05:00 Why coming out in public and making fun of what the opposition is doing with their plans
05:06 is not the answer to what is happening in Manipur.
05:08 I am not interested in your view on what the opposition is doing.
05:11 I don't care.
05:12 I have least interest in what they are doing.
05:15 Currently, you are in the government.
05:16 You are our Prime Minister.
05:17 You sit in the most powerful chair.
05:21 What's happening in Manipur under your rule.
05:24 You rule Delhi.
05:25 It's your government in Manipur.
05:26 Give us an answer.
05:27 We are not asking for something very big.
05:32 Don't let all these goondas from your party come on prime time and talk nonsense.
05:36 Language being used is bad.
05:37 It's not good for you.
05:38 It's not good for the country.
05:39 It's not good for the image of the country.
05:40 Today, everything travels global.
05:41 If you think you're going to say something and hide behind it, you can't because it travels.
05:48 It travels on social media.
05:50 It travels on WhatsApp groups.
05:53 I mean, what is the language being used by your party members?
05:57 I don't know what is going on.
05:59 Why are we tolerating all this nonsense?
06:02 If you are not able to solve the Manipur issue, if you don't have a proper answer, either
06:08 quit and move aside.
06:09 If you're sitting there, then give us the answers.
06:12 I think every Indian needs to know what's happening there.
06:15 Everyone has got their own interpretation.
06:17 Journalists are saying their own thing.
06:18 Activists are saying their own thing.
06:19 International media is saying their own thing.
06:20 But there is no government thing.
06:21 Because the government is busy fighting for the people.
06:22 And trying to prove how bad the opposition is.
06:29 This is not the time for that.
06:34 That is during elections.
06:35 Please do it.
06:36 This is a time for answers on what is happening in Manipur.
06:42 Because that is what I want as a taxpayer.
06:45 I pay my taxes so that you do your job and you tell me what's going on in this country.
06:49 That is your job.
06:51 That is not your... that doesn't come to you as hand me down.
06:55 That is not part of our monarchy system.
06:57 In a democratic system, it's the Prime Minister's job to stand in the Parliament and answer.
07:03 I mean, I just can't get over the fact that last four days have been wasted in the Parliament
07:08 with no debate on Manipur because they have some technical glitch.
07:12 Why they're not doing it?
07:18 You know, and your heart burns because your money, which you should be spending on yourself,
07:25 you're paying the government for these fellows to run the Parliament, sit there and give
07:28 us answers and they're not giving us answers.
07:31 I don't care about opposition, government, I need answers.
07:34 I need answers and people like me on the street need answers.
07:39 You know, the level of unaccountability is so bad.
07:48 Look what's happening in India on the floods.
07:50 I mean, floods in India are like a Salman Khan movie.
07:53 They come every year.
07:54 Sometimes they are a big hit and sometimes they're not a big hit.
07:59 But the movie comes every year.
08:00 Salman Khan's movie comes on Eid.
08:03 Same way, monsoons come in June.
08:06 I don't know why the whole country looks so surprised and the politicians look surprised
08:11 and shocked.
08:12 They're not prepared.
08:13 They're underprepared.
08:14 They're badly prepared.
08:15 They blame the world for it.
08:18 They don't do their job.
08:20 Water bodies are in a mess.
08:23 Floods have come, taken away all the illegal construction.
08:27 And I really have no sympathy when I see water taking away illegal construction.
08:32 I think everyone deserves it.
08:35 People building homes on waterfront in rivers, on lakes.
08:39 Why are you there?
08:41 The guys who've given that permission need to be crucified and hung somewhere.
08:44 All these collectors and these bureaucrats who give these permissions.
08:49 They don't follow rules.
08:50 They don't follow laws.
08:51 It's all random.
08:52 And it's already washed away.
08:53 Again, it goes back to the same thing.
09:00 Taxpayers' money.
09:01 We pay the bureaucrats who create crime and nature cleans it up.
09:07 So this last one week, 10 days, on these two fronts, it has been so heartbreaking to watch
09:19 Manipur not being discussed, Manipur not being debated, Manipur not being resolved.
09:24 We keep reading every day about new violence.
09:27 I mean, homes being burned.
09:30 How long will this go on?
09:32 Who will stop it?
09:34 If all this is about winning elections, then I think as Indians, we should sign an affidavit
09:38 and give it to you all, saying rule for the next 20 years.
09:41 But please stop this.
09:43 It is terrible.
09:44 It is terrible because societies are getting divided.
09:49 People are getting divided.
09:50 Homes are getting broken.
09:51 Families are getting broken.
09:52 Children are getting affected.
09:53 You meet young kids, nowadays they talk Manipur.
09:54 It is at multiple levels of damage happening.
09:55 Just stop it.
09:56 Just stop it.
10:05 I think Indians as taxpayers, we need to put our hand up and stop it.
10:10 I think the whole thing of meeting in cities and candlelight, it is not going to help.
10:18 There has to be a mass revolt against the incompetency of people who are running our
10:23 lives.
10:24 Only then things will change.
10:25 Otherwise, things will not change.
10:27 The people who are running our lives currently are failing us constantly.
10:32 This has to stop.
10:33 I do not know what the implications of what I am saying will happen.
10:37 But I am really, really, really angry as an individual.
10:42 And because I have a platform, I am saying it.
10:44 And I do not want to deal with a whole lot of people in the ruling party.
10:50 I want to hear what the Prime Minister of the country has to say about Manipur.
10:55 He has to stand up and talk.
10:58 This is the time to talk.
10:59 This is the time to explain to India why are the floods misbehaving so badly.
11:05 He needs to explain to India why there has been erosion of environment so badly.
11:11 I think as every taxpayer, we need his answers.
11:15 And he has to come to the parliament and he has to give us his answers.
11:19 I do not think so he can run away anymore from doing that job.
11:24 And frankly, I really do not care what is the opinion about anyone else's.
11:29 On these two issues, he has to give us extremely, extremely specific answers.
11:38 And I think every Indian who contributes his hard-earned money to the running of this nation
11:46 needs to ask these questions.
11:48 These are not my questions.
11:49 These are questions of people who I meet every day.
11:53 These are questions of people who are hurt.
11:55 These are questions of people who lost lives, properties because of incompetent government
12:01 machinery and a highly corrupt bureaucracy.
12:05 I think the whole monsoon loss is a direct function of an inefficient and a highly corrupt
12:14 bureaucracy.
12:15 Are there rules?
12:16 Are there laws?
12:18 It is all there.
12:19 Are they followed?
12:20 They are not.
12:21 The problem is the executors of the laws are terrible, corrupt people.
12:29 I mean, I hope this travels.
12:30 I hope a couple of people who are important see it.
12:32 If they do, let them respond.
12:35 But find a solution to this problem.
12:38 Find a solution to Manipur.
12:40 Let us protect our water bodies.
12:46 As taxpayers, there are two big questions that need to be answered.
12:50 If you don't have answers on how to manage water, go to Amsterdam, go to Indonesia, go
12:55 to Japan, go to all these countries that have learned how to manage water.
13:00 Learn, come back and do it.
13:01 But do it because the loss is huge.
13:07 This is an emotional taxpayers appeal.
13:12 I hope somebody sees it, somebody responds.
13:16 And by the time this goes on air, I hope the Prime Minister of India answers what happened
13:22 in Manipur and answers why the floods were not managed properly.
13:27 And both are man-made problems.
13:31 He needs to answer them.
13:32 Thank you very much.
13:34 See you soon.
13:35 Bye.
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