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00:00 The morning that we have been waiting for for so long,
00:04 that morning will come.
00:06 The day that will bless these hungry and thirsty souls,
00:10 that morning will come.
00:13 Honourable Speaker, Sir, my esteemed colleagues,
00:17 I stand today to respond to the Honourable President's Address
00:19 on behalf of my party, the All India Trinamool Congress.
00:23 The President's Address is the Government's assessment
00:27 of the state of the Union today.
00:30 And I stand before you to vehemently disagree with that assessment
00:34 and to ask the most important question that faces us all.
00:39 What is the kind of Republic we want?
00:41 What is the India that we want today?
00:44 What is our idea of India that we are willing to stand up for,
00:47 fight for, be abused for, get jailed for?
00:51 Ours is a living Constitution.
00:53 It breathes as long as we are willing to breathe life into it.
00:56 Otherwise, it's just a piece of paper, black and white,
00:59 that can be smudged into shades of grey by any majoritarian government.
01:03 An elected government bears the people's trust to uphold the Constitution,
01:08 both in letter as well as in spirit.
01:10 If the government fails, we all fail.
01:13 So it is not enough for Indians to sit back and watch
01:16 and wish each other a happy Republic Day.
01:19 This government wants to alter history.
01:21 They are fearful of the future and they mistrust the present.
01:25 Robert F. Kennedy in the 1960s had warned of such hateful forces.
01:30 The Honourable President, early on in his Address,
01:33 speaks about freedom fighters who secured India's rights.
01:36 He speaks of Gurutej Bahadur, V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.
01:42 But this is just lip service.
01:44 In reality, recalling India's past, a past of decency, a past of plurality,
01:50 a past of secularism, makes this government very, very insecure.
01:56 So the disallowed Republic Day floats on West Bengal, from Tamil Nadu, from Kerala,
02:01 floats on Netaji, who taught us to say "Jai Hind",
02:04 floats on Subramaniam Bhartiyar, who said that even if Indians are divided,
02:09 they are still the child of one mother,
02:11 floats on V.O. Chidambaram Pillai, who even when he was threatened with being imprisoned on sedition,
02:17 refused to stop his political activity,
02:19 and floats on Srinarayan Guru, who picked up a rock and consecrated it as Ereva Shiva.
02:25 The invocation of an imaginary past, however, goes on and on.
02:30 This government has reinvented Savarkar as a freedom fighter.
02:34 The apology letter he wrote to the British, begging for release,
02:38 is now being recast as some kind of strategic masterstroke.
02:42 The appropriation of Bhagat Singh, who was staunchly anti-fascist,
02:45 the appropriation of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, who banned the RSS after becoming Home Minister.
02:51 The President's address refers to Netaji on multiple occasions.
02:55 I will remind this republic that this is the same Netaji who said,
02:59 "The government of India should have an absolutely neutral and impartial attitude towards all religions."
03:06 Would Netaji have approved of a Haridwar Dharam Sansad that issues blood-curdling calls for Muslim genocide?
03:13 On June 14, 1938, in Komila, now Bangladesh, Netaji said,
03:18 "Communalism has raised its ugly head in an all-out nakedness."
03:23 Netaji's Indian National Army's insignia was Tipu Sultan's springing tiger.
03:28 The same Tipu Sultan that you erased from our textbooks,
03:32 after whom you cannot bear to name roads or sports stadiums.
03:36 The INA's mottos were three Urdu words, "Ittehad", "Itmad" and "Kurbani".
03:42 Unity, trust and sacrifice.
03:45 The same Urdu language that this government is so delighted to replace with Hindi
03:49 as the first and official language of Jammu and Kashmir.
03:52 The President's address refers to Khadi being a symbol of consciousness under the leadership of Bapu.
03:58 But the unholy Dharam Sansad's issue calls to kill Bapu all over again.
04:04 You have already succeeded in glorifying Gandhi's assassins,
04:08 but just for the sake of those children who will grow up watching "Beating the Retreat" without his favorite hymn,
04:14 let me remind you of some of the lyrics.
04:16 "Come not in terror as the King of Kings, but kind and good with healing in thy wings."
04:22 "Tears for all, a heart for every plea."
04:26 "Come, friends of sinners, abide with me."
04:29 The President's speech lauds these great personalities for fighting for our rights,
04:34 but in reality the masters of our republic fear their own irrelevance
04:38 if in future India and Indians are actually guaranteed the rights and liberties enshrined in our constitution.
04:45 The Freedom House report 2021 changes India's status from free to partly free.
04:51 The World Press Freedom Index India retains 142nd spot out of 180,
04:57 remains one of the most dangerous places globally for journalists today.
05:01 The Human Freedom Index 2020, measuring personal, civic and economic freedoms,
05:06 puts India at 111th spot out of 160.
05:10 You fear a future India which is comfortable in its own skin.
05:16 What do I mean by this?
05:17 You fear an India which is comfortable with embracing...
05:21 (Speaking in Hindi)
05:31 (Speaking in Hindi)
05:38 (Speaking in Hindi)
06:03 You fear a future India which is comfortable in its own skin,
06:11 which is comfortable with conflicting realities.
06:14 So you fear an India where a Jain boy can hide from home and enjoy a kati kebab on a streetcar in Abdabad.
06:21 So what do you do?
06:22 You forbid non-vegetarian street food in Gujarat municipalities.
06:26 You fear the future where on the eve of an election
06:29 you may not be able to arm twist government agencies to raid opposition leaders.
06:33 So you need to extend the tenure of the CBI and ED chiefs depending on how they do your bidding.
06:39 You fear a future in which bureaucrats in a state cannot be bullied by the centre,
06:43 so you amend the IAS cadre rules.
06:46 This fear of irrelevance in the future makes you behave the way you do.
06:50 You are not content with just a vote.
06:52 You want to get inside our heads, inside our homes,
06:55 to tell us what to eat, what to wear, who to love.
06:58 But your fear alone cannot keep the future at bay.
07:02 Jis subha ki khatir jug jug se, hum sab mar mar ke jeete hai,
07:07 wo subha kabhi toh aayegi.
07:09 In bhooki, pyaasi rooho par, ek din toh karam parmaegi,
07:13 wo subha kabhi toh aayegi.
07:15 Kennedy tells us that people who want to stop history in its tracks mistrust the present.
07:21 This government mistrusts the very soul of our republic
07:24 when it brings in an act to link Aadhaar cards to the right to vote
07:27 because you are creating enormous possibilities to disenfranchise genuine voters.
07:33 You mistrust our annadatas who repeatedly told you,
07:36 "Don't bring in the farm laws."
07:38 Even when you rolled them back,
07:40 I think it was more your fear of losing 70 seats in Western UP
07:43 than any remorse you felt for the 700-plus farmers who passed away.
07:47 You have still not guaranteed MSP in writing.
07:50 One of the main demands.
07:52 You mistrust the jaats, the Sikhs, anyone who stands up to you.
07:55 And yet, the minute elections are round the corner,
07:58 you shamelessly put on a pagdi and put out offers of alliances.
08:02 But this time, the chaudharies will not forget.
08:05 The chaudharies will not forget that the son of a sitting minister of this government
08:09 mowed down five farmers,
08:11 and it took three full days to arrest him,
08:13 and that too after a horrified Supreme Court stepped in.
08:17 I stand here today and ask you to remove the Minister of State,
08:20 the Member of Parliament from Kheri from office.
08:22 Every minute that he continues in his chair
08:25 is an affront to not only democracy,
08:28 but to the very decency and self-respect of our polity.
08:31 I shouldn't be standing here saying this.
08:33 Your conscience should be telling you this.
08:35 Jab naash panuch par aata hai, toh pehle Vivek mar jata hai.
08:40 The way the masters of our republic mistrust the present
08:44 is most acutely illustrated by the pegasus mess.
08:48 And yes, I am going to say it,
08:50 because who are now the treasury benches
08:53 brought down an entire government on 2G
08:56 when 2G was still sub-judice.
08:58 So don't give me this sub-judice, sub-judice, sub-judice.
09:00 I will bring it up.
09:02 The way the masters of our republic mistrust the present
09:04 is most acutely illustrated by the pegasus mess.
09:07 The government stands accused of having spent taxpayers' money
09:10 to buy technology to spy on its own citizens.
09:13 To paraphrase a leading journalist,
09:16 New York Times is lying, the wire is lying,
09:19 Amnesty is lying, the French government is lying,
09:21 the German government is lying, the US government is lying,
09:24 WhatsApp and Apple, who have sued NSO, are lying.
09:27 Only this government is in splendid isolation
09:29 with the truth in Pegasus.
09:31 One minister calls it supari media,
09:33 another stands up in this house and lies to us blatantly.
09:36 How does this government justify introducing a data protection bill
09:40 which empowers the state to exempt itself
09:42 from every privacy obligation that the law imposes?
09:45 You have little respect for the most fundamental aspect of India,
09:48 that it is a union of states with a federal structure.
09:52 How else can you explain your patently illegal extension
09:55 of the BSF jurisdiction 50km into state territory?
09:59 You mistrust journalist Siddique Kapun to an extent
10:03 that you arrest him even before he's visited Hathras
10:06 and even before he's written his report.
10:08 You mistrust comedian Munawar Faruqi
10:11 before a joke he's even yet to crack.
10:14 The President's speech says this government has made a beginning
10:17 to liberate Muslim women by removing triple talaq and hajj restrictions.
10:21 And yet, on New Year's Day 2022,
10:23 Muslim women in India awoke to the reality of being auctioned as bulli bais.
10:29 This was version 2.0 of 2021's Sulli Deals.
10:33 It was only after huge backlash that the government took action
10:36 and a few arrests were made.
10:38 Muslims today are denied houses and rent,
10:40 accused of being spreaders of Covid in India,
10:43 economically boycotted, forbidden from praying in designated spaces.
10:46 This battle of 80% vs 20% that this government has started
10:50 risks ruining 100% of our sacred republic.
10:55 Two minutes, madam. I have 13 minutes. Two minutes.
10:57 I am filled with horror at this rampant Islamophobia.
11:02 Two minutes, sir. I have got 13 minutes, sir.
11:04 I've got 13 minutes, madam.
11:06 Madam, I've got 13 minutes.
11:07 Okay, two minutes. I've got 13 minutes.
11:09 I'll finish in two minutes.
11:11 And it is not rampant.
11:13 According to the United Christian Forum,
11:15 there have been 460 attacks on Christians in 2021 alone.
11:19 Violent mobs have attacked churches, Christian congregations,
11:22 and Christmas celebrations in 16 towns and cities.
11:25 I am filled with horror and shame as I repeat to you
11:28 what Mounirul Sheikh, an old man in my home of Karimpur Nadia,
11:32 told me last year.
11:33 Ma, it is your fight for politics, but our fight for the country.
11:38 Ma, for you, this is a battle of ideology.
11:41 But for us, it is a war for survival.
11:43 Let me finish, sir. Let me finish the last thing.
11:45 Last one minute.
11:46 Cut the line. No, no. No.
11:48 No, no. No, no. No, no.
11:51 No, no.
11:52 Mr. Bashir, you speak.
11:54 You speak.
11:55 Speak, Mr. Bashir.
11:57 You sit.
11:58 Sit. Sit.
12:00 Madam, one minute, madam.
12:06 13 minutes is not done, sir. One minute, madam.
12:08 Please, thank you.
12:09 Eight minutes.
12:11 But today, we as Indians need to realize one thing.
12:14 If we are to save this republic, the onus lies on us.
12:18 To all of you that I say, lawyers, actors, journalists, businessmen,
12:23 who say this country needs a change,
12:26 to all of you I say, you cannot choose the time of battle.
12:29 The bugle has sounded.
12:31 The citizens of our republic need to fight now.
12:33 This morning, we will come.
12:35 To the judiciary, I use my parliamentary privilege and say,
12:38 you are all this country has as last recourse and remedy.
12:42 Do not fail us.
12:43 Step in proactively.
12:45 To the opposition, I say.
12:49 # #
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