During an event in Paris attended by students and academics, Rahul Gandhi, a prominent Congress leader, strongly criticized the BJP and its ideological precursor, the RSS. He asserted that the government is prioritizing power at any cost and emphasized that their actions do not align with Hindu principles. The discussion, which took place at Sciences PO University in Paris, a renowned social sciences institution in France, covered various topics. These included Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra, the initiatives of the opposition coalition, the evolving global landscape, and other critical issues. He emphasized the Opposition's dedication to safeguarding the "essence of India" and expressed confidence that the country would overcome its current challenges. Stay tuned to Mirror Now for the latest updates.
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00:00 My name is Lydia Jai Kumar.
00:01 I want to ask about the violence against minorities in India.
00:05 In particular, because this is close to my heart,
00:07 violence, caste atrocities in India.
00:09 Every day we hear people from the Dalit community
00:12 killed because--
00:13 or violence against them because they went to a wedding,
00:15 because they went to the school, because they--
00:18 things that are our rights, just because we're accessing it,
00:22 there's violence against people in the Dalit community.
00:24 What do you think needs to be done?
00:25 Because it's societal, but it's also institutional.
00:28 And it seems like there is no answer to it,
00:31 and there is no help from it.
00:32 No, there are--
00:34 I think it needs to be combated.
00:36 I think it requires a political imagination.
00:40 And I think it is very important that it is done.
00:43 What the BJP and the RSS are trying to do,
00:52 the heart of what they're trying to do
00:55 is trying to stop the expression, the participation
01:00 of lower castes, other backward castes, tribals,
01:04 and minority communities.
01:05 And for me, an India where a Dalit person or a Muslim
01:14 person, tribal person, upper caste person,
01:17 anybody is being mistreated, is being attacked,
01:22 is not the India I want.
01:24 So I think it's very important that this question is
01:30 taken head on.
01:32 But I don't think that the type of political imagination that
01:38 is required is currently there.
01:43 It ebbs and flows.
01:44 So you have these movements.
01:47 You have this expression.
01:48 And then they ebb away.
01:50 And I think we're at one of those points
01:52 where they've sort of ebbed away.
01:53 And we need to reconstruct the political imagination that
01:57 will solve the problem you're talking about.
02:00 For me, this is the central problem in India.
02:03 This is bigger than any other problem.
02:06 Thank you.
02:07 Gentleman over there.
02:09 Hi.
02:10 Thank you for the conversation.
02:11 My name is Tanishk Saha.
02:13 And I guess I had a question related
02:16 to a term you used earlier on in the speech, Bharat.
02:20 And there is a lot of discussion going around social media
02:23 right now with a potential renaming, rebranding,
02:27 whatever you might call it.
02:29 But what is-- does this kind of change of a more popular name?
02:36 India has been named Bharat since its inception.
02:39 But is there a point or some value
02:43 to be derived in changing this name
02:45 in the international perspective,
02:47 in the way we can bring to discussions,
02:49 to be on our own side as you speak?
02:53 Well, the Constitution actually uses both names.
02:58 So the line in the Constitution is the line I started with,
03:02 India, that is Bharat, is a union of states.
03:05 So I don't really see a problem there.
03:07 Both words are perfectly acceptable.
03:10 But I think maybe we irritated the government a little bit
03:15 because we named our coalition India.
03:19 So that got them all heated up.
03:21 And now they've decided to change the name of the country.
03:26 I mean, you know how these things are.
03:29 I mean, we could always give our coalition a second name as well.
03:36 So I mean, I don't think it'll solve the purpose.
03:38 But people act in strange ways.
03:42 What do you think about it?
03:45 I personally believe it might not be the best thing
03:48 to focus on right now, especially
03:50 given that the country is at the lens,
03:54 it's at the focus of this big summit that's taking place.
03:58 World leaders are there to discuss so many different issues.
04:02 I personally, I found that it could have been something
04:07 that could be tabled for a later moment if it was necessary.
04:11 And I don't know, focus about issues inside and other issues.
04:15 You're right.
04:16 But there is something deeper that is going on,
04:24 which is that people who want to change the name of anything
04:35 are basically trying to deny history.
04:39 Right.
04:41 The fact of the matter is, whether we like it or we don't like it,
04:47 we have a history.
04:49 We were ruled by the British.
04:51 We fought the British.
04:53 We defeated the British.
04:56 Right.
04:57 I'm sure the English don't like it.
05:02 But English is spoken by more Indians than English people.
05:06 It's our language more than theirs.
05:10 Right.
05:11 And we speak it in our own way.
05:14 We twist it and we turn it maybe in ways they don't like.
05:18 So the English that is spoken in India is actually a different expression.
05:25 Right. That is spoken in England.
05:28 Embedded in that English is a huge history.
05:34 A lot of pain, a lot of happiness.
05:39 Imagination, struggle, those things are embedded.
05:42 And the people who want to change the name want to erase that.
05:45 They don't want that the history of our country is known to our future generation.
05:57 It disturbs them.
05:58 Right. I believe that we should accept our history.
06:04 If we were ruled by the British for 100 to 100 years, OK,
06:08 we dealt with it and let's move on.
06:11 So it is a deeper question.
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