Rahul Gandhi in U.S: Rahul Tears Into BJP, RSS and Modi Govt in Texas, USA | Oneindia News
Rahul Gandhi, addressing the Indian diaspora in Dallas, claimed that fear of the BJP and Prime Minister Modi has dissipated since the recent Lok Sabha election. He referenced his post-election Parliament speech mentioning 'Abhayamudra', a symbol of fearlessness in Indian religions. Gandhi asserted that the BJP couldn't comprehend this concept. He emphasized that the diminished fear of the ruling party was not his or Congress's achievement, but a significant accomplishment of the Indian people recognizing democracy's power.
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00:00Thank you, Sam.
00:16I'd like to welcome everybody, starting with Namaskar.
00:20Starting with Sam Pitroda ji, Aarti Krishna ji, Mohinder Singh ji, George Abraham ji,
00:31Pradeep Samla ji, Bhullar ji, Gurudev Hayar ji, leaders on the dais and dear members of
00:42IOC.
00:45Ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to welcome all of you here and wish you happy Onam and
00:53happy Ganesh Chaturthi.
01:01I was listening to Mohinder ji's speech and he was describing in detail what the job of
01:11the leader of the opposition is.
01:14He said opposing the government in parliament, he said not letting them run a dictatorship
01:28and he gave a list of three or four things that are, that define what a leader of opposition
01:37is supposed to do.
01:42This is true.
01:44One can say that those are all elements of the job.
01:54But while he was speaking I was thinking to myself, actually that is not really my role.
02:02Those are maybe my responsibilities.
02:08But my role is broader and bigger than that and in many ways simpler than that.
02:15And while he was speaking I thought to myself, if I am going to speak to people of Dallas
02:21I need to be clear about what my role is.
02:25And so I'd like to tell you that I believe my role is injecting the values of love, respect
02:39and humility in Indian politics.
02:45I think what is missing in our political system and across parties, love, respect and humility.
03:00Love to all human beings, not necessarily only of one religion, one community, one caste,
03:14one state or to those who speak one language.
03:23Respect to everybody who is trying to build an India, not just the most powerful but the
03:38weakest and humility not in others but in oneself.
03:46So I think that is how I see my role.
03:51And if you were to ask me five years from now, do you consider yourself successful?
03:59I would look at these three things.
04:01I would say, have I helped bring the idea of love into the forefront of Indian politics?
04:06Have I helped make politicians and others and myself in particular more humble?
04:16Have I increased the respect that people have, that Indian people have with each other?
04:24Those would be the values that I would be thinking about.
04:27Of course what Mohinderji said would also form part of my work.
04:37Now we started here with the Indian National Anthem and while the National Anthem was playing,
04:48I was thinking to myself that this song mentions all our states and it mentions them all equally.
05:04It does not start by saying this state is the best and this state is the second best
05:11and this state is the third best.
05:13The song basically describes India as a union of states, very much like the United States.
05:24So people say, often people say, oh, we share the fact that we are the two biggest democracies
05:33but we share another very important fact that we are both union of states.
05:40The United States, the United States, whose National Anthem we also played and in our
05:51constitution it's clearly stated, India that is Bharat is a union of states.
05:58Which means, just like in the United States, no state is superior to any other state.
06:09No religion is superior to any other religion.
06:12No language is superior to any other language.
06:15My brother who's wearing a turban there deserves the same respect as somebody who doesn't wear a turban.
06:22We cannot say, we cannot say, look, we don't like him because he wears a turban and we
06:26like him because he doesn't wear a turban or, you know, he speaks Tamil so we don't
06:31like him and he speaks Hindi so we like him or, yeah, or you know, he speaks Malayalam
06:38so we don't like him.
06:44And so Telugu, because these are, see when we say Telugu, we are not just saying language.
06:57Embedded inside Telugu is history, is tradition, is music, is dance, is food, is everything.
07:07So if you say to the people of Andhra Pradesh that look, Telugu is not as important as Hindi,
07:18you're insulting the people of Andhra Pradesh.
07:21Because you're saying to them that your history is not important, your tradition is not important,
07:25your food is not important, your music is not important, your forefathers are not important.
07:32And this is the simple battle that is being fought in India.
07:37The RSS believes that India is one idea.
07:44And we believe that India is a multiplicity of ideas.
07:52And we believe, by the way, very much like the United States, we believe that everybody
08:01should be allowed to participate.
08:04We believe that everybody should be allowed to dream.
08:09Everybody should be given space, regardless of their caste, language, religion, tradition,
08:16history.
08:17This is the fight.
08:19And the fight was crystallized in the election.
08:23When millions of people in India clearly understood that the Prime Minister of India is attacking
08:33the constitution of India.
08:36Because what I am saying to you, union of states, respect to languages, respect to religions,
08:46respect to traditions, respect to castes, this is all in the constitution.
08:54Every single word that I have said to you is in the constitution.
08:57The foundation of modern India is the constitution.
09:05And what people understood in the election, clearly, and I saw it happening.
09:11When I used to raise the constitution like this, people understood what I was saying.
09:16They were saying that the BJP is attacking our tradition, attacking our language, attacking
09:24our states, attacking our histories.
09:29And most importantly, what they understood was that anybody who is attacking the constitution
09:39of India is also attacking our religious tradition.
09:48And that is why, in my first speech in parliament, you must have noticed, when I described Abhay
09:56Mudra, this, the fact that this is a symbol of fearlessness and it is present in every
10:03single Indian religion.
10:07You can look, you go on the internet and you can see, every single Indian religion, Guru
10:12Nanak Ji holds his hand like this, Shiva holds his hand like this.
10:17Every single Indian religion, the hand is a symbol of fearlessness.
10:22And when I was saying this, the BJP could not stand it.
10:28They don't understand.
10:31And we are going to make them understand.
10:34You see, and the other thing that happened, the other thing that happened that was very
10:40beautiful, that in fact I was amazed that it happened so quickly, was that fear of
10:49the BJP vanished, disappeared, gone.
10:55And we saw that immediately, within minutes of the election result, nobody in India was
11:05scared of the BJP or the Prime Minister of India.
11:10So these are huge achievements, not of Rahul Gandhi or the Congress party.
11:17We are peripheral.
11:18These are huge achievements of the people of India who realised, of democracy, of the
11:23people of India who realised that we are not going to accept an attack on our constitution,
11:29we are not going to accept an attack on our religion, we are not going to accept an attack
11:36on our states.
11:38Now, now finally, I am speaking to people in Dallas.
11:48And who are you?
11:50You are people who have come from India.
11:55The values that I have been describing, values of the constitution, values of respect, values
12:01of humility, you carry them inside your heart, you have them in your blood.
12:07So when you come, when you came to this country, you did not come with arrogance, you came
12:14with humility, you did not come with hatred, you came with love and affection.
12:20And you did not come with disrespect, saying that, you know, we have come to America and
12:23who are these people, we will show them.
12:25No, you came with respect.
12:28So inside your heart is respect, is love, humility.
12:38And you are our ambassadors in one way, you are the bridge between these two unions.
12:46United States of America and Union of States, which is written in our constitution.
12:52And so you have a very important role, because the relationship between these two unions
12:57is going to determine the future of both these unions.
13:03The United States needs India, and India needs the United States, it's a fact.
13:08We cannot get away from it.
13:10So you have a very important role of being the bridge between your old home and your
13:19new home.
13:23And in my view, you should travel freely between these two homes.
13:31And you should bring the idea of India to the United States and the ideas of the United
13:37States to India.
13:42Sam said that, I had promised that I will go to Dallas.
13:48And it's true.
13:52But I would like to say that our trip was supposed to be longer.
13:57And we were supposed to go to New York, Washington, California, and Texas, and then in Chicago,
14:06and then we had to shorten the trip.
14:09So I told Sam, look, I have promised the people of Dallas, so we have to go to Dallas.
14:16And so we included, we included Dallas in our itinerary.
14:22And I think it was a very good idea.
14:24100%, we'll come to Chicago, love you.
14:27And we included Dallas.
14:29And I think it was a very good idea because Dallas is thriving, Texas is thriving, a lot
14:36of technology is moving here.
14:38And I can see that all of you are doing a tremendous job in raising the flag, raising
14:45the Indian flag here.
14:46So I'd like to thank you.
14:50And I'd like to also tell you that it's important that the ideas you carry of humility, of affection,
15:00of respect, you spread them between in our community here, and also among the people
15:10of India.
15:11Thank you very much.
15:12Namaskar.
15:13Wow, what an inspirational speech, right?
15:25What was your take home point?
15:26There was something, three main things that he told us to keep and take home point, what
15:32is it?
15:33Three things.