Watch Trinamool Congress leader Mahua Moitra's full speech as she passionately criticizes the Narendra Modi-led BJP government and invokes the words of Pablo Neruda. Representing Krishnanagar in West Bengal, Moitra addresses the recent elections where the BJP secured 240 seats but fell short of the majority mark. In this compelling address, Moitra challenges Prime Minister Modi to visit Manipur and addresses key issues facing the nation. Don't miss this fiery and articulate speech that has resonated with many.
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00:00Thank you, Honourable Speaker Sir, my esteemed colleagues in the 18th Lok Sabha.
00:20I stand here on behalf of my party.
00:23Pradhan, Mr Prime Minister, Honourable Prime Minister, I would really request you, since
00:28you have been here for the better half of one hour, you came to my area twice during
00:40the campaign, sir, aaj toh sunke jaaye, sir, never mind, my bad luck.
00:46Honourable Speaker Sir, Rahul, Honourable Speaker Sir, my esteemed colleagues in this
00:53newly-constituted 18th Lok Sabha, I stand here on behalf of my party, the All India
00:59Trinamool Congress, koi baat nahi, wo mere LOP hai, wo mere LOP hai, wo already mujhe
01:07sun chuke, wo mere LOP hai.
01:12Honourable Speaker Sir, my esteemed colleagues in this 18th Lok Sabha, I stand here on behalf
01:19of my party, the All India Trinamool Congress, to speak on the Honourable President's Address.
01:26The last time I stood here, sir, the last time I stood here, I was not allowed to speak.
01:32I was not allowed to speak, aap logon ne, aarey let me finish, din par din par, let
01:39me finish, nice, take note, let me finish, let me finish, jisko jaana hai, please jaaye,
01:44no problem.
01:45The last time I stood here, I was not allowed to speak.
01:49I was not allowed to speak.
01:52But the ruling party has paid a very heavy price for throttling the voice of one MP.
01:59Mujhe baithane ka chakkar mein, janta ne aapke 63 sadasthiyon, 63 junkon permanently baitha
02:07diya.
02:08You have gone down from 303 to 240.
02:12In my maiden speech in the Lok Sabha in June 2019, I spoke on the seven signs of fascism
02:20that were taking over this country.
02:21Five years to the date, on June 27, 2024, this House saw the unprecedented scene of
02:30the marshals welcoming the President of India, the Honourable President, with a sengol in
02:36their hand.
02:37The sengol is a symbol of the supreme authority of a monarch.
02:44It has no place in the temple of a constitutional democracy.
02:48But Honourable Speaker, sir, it is understandable why this happened.
02:52Because the BJP has still not understood that their 303 brute majority, their Raj Tantra,
03:00has been reduced to a 240-seat minority by the Lok Tantra.
03:06They are still living in the world of the sengol.
03:10This sudden change reality, this new reality, is yet to sink in for the Treasury Benches
03:17and especially for the speechwriters of the Honourable President's address.
03:21The speech that the Honourable President read out, she said, the people of India have elected
03:27a stable government with a clear majority.
03:30Please do not embarrass the Office of the President by using poorly edited, cut-and-paste
03:36versions of old speeches.
03:39This is not a stable government.
03:41It depends on multiple allies with a history of U-turns.
03:45It has not got a simple majority.
03:47The BJP is 32 short of 272.
03:52It is going to be a very hard landing for the Treasury Benches, as was obvious today.
03:58There are 234 warriors this time, firmly united, and we have walked through fire to walk through
04:06these doors, so you will not be able to shut us up this time the way you did last time.
04:11There are numerous statements in the Honourable President's address that defy even a tenuous
04:16link to truth and to reality.
04:19Like in my 2019 maiden speech when I spoke in Seven Signs, today I have picked out six
04:25themes from the Honourable President's address, and I will analyse how each of them is an
04:31exercise in fallacy and an exercise in untruth.
04:35The address covers many issues, but I have chosen six themes.
04:40The first theme, the North-East.
04:42The Honourable President's address says that the government has increased allocation for
04:46the North-East by four times, has worked for increased and lasting peace in the area.
04:54I have one question.
04:56Why is the word Manipur nowhere in the speech?
05:00Why do we refer to the generic North-East?
05:02During the Lok Sabha campaign, the BJP, the ruling party, the Honourable Prime Minister
05:09mentioned many words beginning with the letter M – Muslim, Mullah, Madrasa, Mughal, Mutton,
05:19Machli, Mujra, Mangalsutra, but not once did they mention Manipur.
05:25We don't need to act East.
05:30The government says we want to act East.
05:32We don't need you to act East.
05:34Look East.
05:35Walk East.
05:36And most important, embrace East.
05:39I stand here for my brothers and sisters of Manipur, and I quote the revolutionary poet
05:45Pablo Neruda.
05:46One morning the bonfires leapt out of the earth, devouring human beings, and from then
05:54on the fire, from then on blood.
05:57Come see the blood on the streets.
05:59Come see the blood in the streets.
06:00Please go to Manipur.
06:01See the blood in the streets.
06:03The second theme in the President's address, women empowerment, the speech says women in
06:09our country have been demanding greater representation in the Lok Sabha and Vidhan Sabhas.
06:14And today they stand empowered by the Women's Reservation Act.
06:17This is a complete untruth.
06:20Firstly, you conveniently delayed reservation for women in Parliament because you actually
06:25fear women.
06:26You fear Nari Shakti.
06:28You want their support, but you certainly don't want us here.
06:33The 17th Lok Sabha had 78 women, 14.3%.
06:37The 18th Lok Sabha, this Lok Sabha has only 74 women.
06:41Four women less than last time, only 13.6%.
06:45The ruling party, the BJP, had called a special session to bring in the Women's Reservation
06:50Bill.
06:51They have got a shameful 30 women MPs out of 240, only 12.5%.
06:57It is only Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress that in 2019 had 37% and even this time has
07:05got 38%.
07:08And the President's address talks of a comprehensive campaign by the government to enrich and make
07:143 crore women Lakhpati Didis.
07:18All that we have seen so far is a far more comprehensive campaign to make one Arapati
07:23Dada.
07:24I'm sure I don't need to take his name in this house.
07:27I'm sure we all know who we are talking about.
07:30The third theme, Kashmir.
07:32The address mentions that after decades of shutdowns and strikes, the Kashmir Valley
07:37has voted in an atmosphere of stability and security.
07:41But if abrogating Section 370 was such a good idea, why did the ruling party, the BJP, not
07:47even dare to put up candidates in the Three Valley seats of Anantnag, Baramulla and Srinagar?
07:56If 370 was such a big deal and you were going to campaign on the basis of 370, you did not
08:02even dare to fight the seats.
08:04The Kashmir Valley has voted in MPs who were against your 2019 decision.
08:10You downgraded Ladakh into a union territory.
08:13You told them it was a temporary move.
08:15Today, five years later, the Ladakhis are still waiting.
08:20They have not got back their statehood.
08:22You have not given them a legislature.
08:24You have not included them in the six schedule.
08:27You have not given their demand of two separate seats of Leh and Kargil.
08:32As a result, in the current Lok Sabha, the Ladakhis have relegated you to third position
08:36in the Lok Sabha.
08:37You lost it.
08:38The fourth theme in the Honourable President's address, the Election Commission of India.
08:44The speech expresses gratitude to the ECI for conducting the largest election in the
08:50world.
08:51With all humility, with no intent to denigrate the office of what used to be the august constitutional
08:58body of this land, let us, as members of this opposition, put on record that we won
09:04in spite of the ECI, not because of it.
09:08The commissioners chosen by a government-dominated panel in willful disobedience of the Supreme
09:14Court turned a deaf ear to the most egregious violations of the Model Code of Conduct by
09:20the ruling party, by the Honourable Prime Minister, with his hate-filled speeches and
09:24his divisive religion-based rhetoric.
09:27This country has been ashamed and disgusted by the language used against minorities during
09:33this campaign.
09:34This election will go down in history where an eager and compliant Election Commission
09:42turned a blind eye and a deaf ear against the excesses of the ruling party when the
09:48MCC was in effect.
09:50Opposition leaders were arrested, party accounts were frozen, EDI and CBI even came into our
09:57election offices with impunity.
10:00Ultimately, the voters took charge and said, enough is enough.
10:06The fifth theme, and here I have to commend the speechwriters' very dark, almost macabre
10:11sense of humour, is the Indian railways, aviation and infrastructure.
10:17The address says that work on the Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train is going on at a fast pace and
10:23Indian Railways is doing feasibility studies for bullet train corridors in the north,
10:27in the south and in the east of India.
10:29I am going to ask the Government a question.
10:32Why are you, Honourable Chairperson, is this a cruel joke?
10:36You are sanctioning Rs 1,08,000 crores for one single Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train.
10:46A basic high-speed rail network costs Rs 200 crores per kilometre.
10:51The Indian Railways is touting the Kavach anti-collision system, it is an automatic
10:55train protection system, as the cheapest in the world, says Rs 50 lakhs per kilometre
11:00is the cost.
11:01The total rail tracks in India is roughly about 126,000 kilometres.
11:06So the cost of covering all of India with Kavach is going to be Rs 63,000 crores.
11:11All of India's Kavach costs Rs 63,000 and one single Ahmedabad-Mumbai bullet train costs
11:19Rs 1,08,000.
11:20Please look at the numbers.
11:23Last June, in Balasore, three trains collided, 296 people died.
11:28The Ministry said Kavach was not operational on that route.
11:32Last week, Kanchenjunga Express collided with a goods train in New Jalpaigudi, 10 people
11:37died.
11:38Again, the Ministry said Kavach is not operational on the route.
11:42The Economic Times had a survey which said that at the current level of funding, it will
11:46take 50 years for all of India to be covered under Kavach and you are telling us about
11:51bullet trains.
11:52Please do not start shouting about what it was during Nehru's time.
11:57We do not know and we do not care.
11:59False equivalences cannot take the place of real body bags.
12:03The address mentions how India is apparently the third largest domestic aviation hub of
12:10the world.
12:12In truth, India's airports have become domestic hazard hubs.
12:16First in Jabalpur, then in Delhi, then in Rajkot, newly constructed airports have canopies
12:23falling down, killing people.
12:25The newly constructed Rampat and Ayodhya have had three cave-ins in the last week.
12:30The Pragati Maidan tunnel is flooded.
12:33The Atal Setu has developed cracks.
12:35The Ram Temple's roof is leaking.
12:38This is exactly what happens when infrastructure is poorly planned and rushed in order for
12:44photo opportunities by the Supreme Leader.
12:48The sixth theme, competitive co-operative federalism.
12:52Honourable Chairperson Sir, the last decade saw the most brutal government-sponsored throttling
12:59of co-operative federalism that this country has ever seen.
13:03I speak for my own state of West Bengal.
13:06The Centre has withheld 7,000 crores in Mandrega funds.
13:1017 lakh households have been deprived for work already done.
13:15It has held back 8,200 crores under the Rural Housing Scheme, over 11 lakh houses sanctioned
13:21but not paid.
13:22Another 1,000 crores has been held back in pension and PMGSY, a total of 16,000 crores.
13:29When we went to meet the Rural Development Minister, we were dragged out by the Delhi
13:33police and bundled into prison vans.
13:36Last week, as a delegation, we went to meet with Atashi of the AAP, who was on a hunger
13:41strike.
13:42Look at what is happening in the AAP government in Delhi today.
13:44The Aam Aadmi is in power in Delhi.
13:47There was a 1994 water-sharing agreement which mandated Haryana to release 613 million gallons
13:54of water per day to Delhi.
13:56Haryana is run by the BJP government and they have reneged on this agreement.
14:00They are releasing 100 million gallons less per day, as a result of which 28 lakh people
14:07in Delhi are having to go without water per day.
14:11This government's competitive co-operativism seems to be an exercise in how to compete
14:18on how to choke opposition-run states.
14:21The government spent the past five years in almost perfecting an elected autocracy, and
14:43by the end of 2023, this government had reached the pinnacle of their arrogance.
14:50This parliamentary democracy was replaced by a monstrous super-cult, the cult of the
14:57supreme leader, the non-biological leader, born of the parmatma, who stood in this house
15:03and proclaimed,
15:04आपके बार चार सो पार, एक अकेला कितनो पे भारी पड़ा।
15:11This was the turning point when the destiny of the ruling party changed.
15:18Whether in Greek mythology, whether in Indian mythology, if you act with arrogance towards
15:22the gods, you will be punished.
15:25We have 33,000 gods in India, but in our democracy, the most supreme of them is the gana devata,
15:32the lord of the people, and they have punished you.
15:35You may have formed a government again, but yours is a pyrrhic victory, a victory which
15:41inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to a defeat.
15:46In Bengal, the supreme leader started his Vijaya Sankalp Yatra on March 1st in the constituency
15:54of Arambagh, then came to Krishnagarh, then came to Barasat, ended on May 29th in Calcutta.
16:03The BJP lost all these seats.
16:06The Honorable Prime Minister did 23 campaign meetings in Bengal and lost in 20 seats.
16:13In Maharashtra, the Honorable Prime Minister campaigned in 18 seats, the NDA lost in 15 of them.
16:24In Punjab, he campaigned in Hoshiadpur, in Jalandhar, in Patiala, in Gurdaspur.
16:28The BJP lost all the four seats.
16:33In Rajasthan, he campaigned in Banswara with the most disgraceful references to Muslims.
16:39In outright violation of the law, the EC kept quiet.
16:42Not only did the BJP lose Banswara by over 2 lakh votes, the BJP, which had won 25 on 25 in 2019
16:51and won the state government only months ago, came down to 14 seats.
16:58Three states, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bengal, account for 170 seats.
17:04That is exactly one third of India.
17:06The BJP won in only 54 of them.
17:13In 2019, the Honorable Prime Minister had taunted the now leader of the opposition
17:19by saying that he must have used a microscope to find that one single seat in India where the minority were in majority.
17:27Honorable Chairperson Sir, it is so ironic that today the majority needed no microscope to turn the BJP into a minority.
17:36Wherever there is a majority, you have become a minority.
17:40You were supposed to whistle, but this time the people whistled.
18:10How ironic is it that the Honorable Prime Minister has to take to social media himself
18:16to tell people that no, it is not Modi Kab Marivar, it is NDA, the Nitish Naidu Dependent Alliance.
18:24In January, the Honorable Prime Minister consecrated the unfinished Ram Temple in Ayodhya.
18:31He said he was tasked with the divine duty of bringing Ram Lalla home.
18:35The Ram Mandir was going to ensure that not only would the BJP cross 400 seats,
18:40but that this government would last a thousand years.
18:43The last time in history that we heard of a thousand year vision was during the Third Reich.
18:49This was the second time that we have heard of it.
18:51But then ultimately, Lord Ram said, stop, not in my name.
18:55Too much arrogance, too much pride caused you to lose the kingdom of Lanka.
19:03The BJP lost in Ayodhya, Faizabad, where the temple is.
19:06It lost in Banda, Chhatru Chitrakoot, where Lord Ram meditated.
19:10It lost in Shravasti, where the son of the Honorable Prime Minister's ex-secretary said,
19:16my father has built the temple, campaigned in his name, you lost there.
19:20All the seats around Ayodhya, Basti, Sultanpur, Ambedkar Nagar, the BJP lost.
19:26There is no peace in your name chants.
19:30There is no peace in your name chants.
19:33There is everything in Jai Shri Ram, but not Ram.
19:38There is everything in Jai Shri Ram, but not Ram.
19:43Today in India, there are two types of leaders.
19:46Those of us who come via the voting machine, and then there are many who come via the washing machine.
19:52There are still people who say, wait, wait, you don't know Modi ji, wait six months and see.
19:58The BJP will get 300 members.
20:01To them I say, no, this will not happen this time.
20:05Because every potential turncoat will have to choose between temporary greed or fear,
20:11and between permanently becoming politically irrelevant.
20:15So you can accept a temporary offer of a ministry,
20:20you can accept a temporary settlement of an existing trumped up CBI or ED case,
20:25and you can switch parties.
20:27But when you go back to the electorate, the electorate will punish you.
20:30Most turncoats have been punished by the electorate.
20:33Also this time, India has very large, solid block components.
20:38Congress has 100 seats.
20:40SP has 37 seats.
20:43Trinamool has 29 seats.
20:45DMK has 22 seats.
20:46NCP and UPTA have 17 seats.
20:49So this is not a rag-tag bunch of members that you can lure away.
20:53This is a solid block.
20:54So yes, it's a question of time.
20:56But the question is not whether they will get 300,
20:59the question is when people will join us and we will cross 272.
21:06The ruling party's politics have always been along the lines of religious hate and ethnic divisiveness.
21:11But even at the height of their power, when they got 303 seats,
21:15one out of two Hindus had not voted for the BJP.
21:18This time, even in their core Hindi heartland,
21:21their core voters have deserted them.
21:24The Muslims in India, over 250 of them,
21:27called infiltrators, called terrorists in the land of their birth,
21:32waited silently, patiently, and bided their time.
21:36And in one voice during this election in every state,
21:40they stood up and told the government,
21:42and I quote the poet Puneet Sharma,
21:44Hindustan se mera seedha rishta hai.
21:47Tum kaun ho be? Tum kaun ho be?
21:50Kyu batlao tumko kitna gehra hai?
21:53The Dalits, whom the BJP paid lip service to for so many years,
21:58realized that even the talk of 400 seats
22:01meant that Baba Sahib Ambedkar's constitution was in danger,
22:05and they deserted the party.
22:07The Marathas, whom the BJP coalition had tried so desperately to woo,
22:11realized that their promises were worth nothing.
22:14The BJP and its allies lost 7 out of 8 seats in Marathwad.
22:19The Jats, the careers of their youth,
22:22at risk with this ill-conceived Agnivir scheme.
22:25Their farming livelihoods threatened.
22:27Their female wrestlers manhandled.
22:29They vented their anger, their ire at the ballot box.
22:34Ultimately, it was the BJP's policies of exclusion, not inclusion.
22:39You wanted to exclude everybody, and that was your undoing.
22:42You didn't need Muslims. You trampled on Dalits.
22:45You ignored farmers. You ignored Jats.
22:48You marginalized Kashmiris.
22:50Well, they consolidated their voice during this election pan-India.
22:55And today, they don't need you.
22:57That's the message they've given you during this election.
23:00Yeh desh hi apna hasil hai, jahan Ram Prasad bhi bismil hai.
23:05Mitti ko kaise baatoge? Sabka hikoon toh shamil hai.
23:09That's what they said. You can't divide us. You can't do it anymore.
23:12This new India, this new frame of reference,
23:15is going to be very hard for a lot of interest groups.
23:19Perhaps the first casualty is the legacy media.
23:23The Godi media was its own worst victim.
23:26The brown-nosing TV anchors and online trolls
23:29lied, spread fake information,
23:32amplified the government's propaganda.
23:34So-called sophologists, who actually had printing contracts from the government of India,
23:39were on TV 24-7 acting like the election was a done deal.
23:43There was no need for voting. The BJP had already won.
23:46Media moguls organized conclaves where they prostrated themselves before the Vishwa Guru.
23:51Anchors used staged interviews and set up scripts.
23:57In short, the media had lost all credibility.
24:00So when you asked the people during surveys which way they voted,
24:03they didn't trust you and they didn't tell you the truth,
24:06which is why you got it wrong.
24:08Ram Kamal Jha, the editor of the Indian Express,
24:11remarked that some media owners were so comfortable on their knees
24:15that it hurts to stand up.
24:17To them we say, please stay where you are.
24:20There is a new generation of journalists in India today,
24:23with spine, with integrity and with courage.
24:26A media you have done your best to silence
24:29with fake cases and attempts and censorship,
24:32but they have survived and they will thrive in the digital space.
24:35I will also touch upon another pillar in our democracy, the judiciary.
24:39Two days ago, the Honorable Chief Justice of India,
24:42while on a visit to Calcutta, remarked that judges were not deities.
24:46They are here to dispense justice with compassion.
24:49Just as one can't be partly pregnant, you either are or you're not,
24:53justice and democracy too must be absolute.
24:56They cannot partly be in effect.
24:58The retirement age for High Court justices is 62
25:02and the retirement age for Supreme Court judges is 65.
25:05Now this has unfortunately contributed to High Court judges
25:08kowtowing to the Supreme Court Collegium and to the government
25:11for a last-minute elevation to be able to serve for three more years
25:15and then qualify for further sinecures,
25:18such as the head of the Lokpal, the head of the National Human Rights Commission,
25:21chairman of various tribunals.
25:23It has come to such a state that opposition leaders
25:26framed in politically motivated cases are denied bail and denied justice
25:31simply because judges are even scared to touch their case
25:34for fear of offending the government.
25:37Today, I say, the poorest people in India,
25:41who have perhaps the most to lose from offending the government in power,
25:46they have shown spine and risen to the occasion.
25:50Your Lords and Ladyships, heed thy inner voice,
25:54have a spine, rise to the occasion.
25:57Seven months ago, on the 8th of December,
26:00this House was transformed into a Kuru Sabha,
26:03presided over by a blind Dhritarashtra,
26:05where Dushasan Darbaris made every attempt to disrobe Draupadi.
26:11The Ethics Committee that voted to recommend my expulsion on the 9th of November,
26:16they voted 6-4, had ten members and one chairperson.
26:21Of the five Lok Sabha members from the BJP,
26:24four have not returned to the House.
26:26The chairperson, a BJP member, has also not returned.
26:30The Congress turncoat from Punjab, who voted against, has also not returned.
26:34The BJP lady MP from Maharashtra,
26:37who started the debate in the House on behalf of the 8th BJP, has also lost.
26:42Much like Lord Krishna protected Draupadi,
26:45the people of Krishnagar have protected me.
26:49In the last year, a lot of people look at me and say,
26:53Oh Mahua, you must have lost a lot.
26:55You lost your membership, you lost your House.
26:58And by the way, I also lost my uterus due to a surgery.
27:00But you know what I gained?
27:02I gained what Rahulji said, the freedom from fear.
27:05I do not fear you.
27:07I will see the end of you.
27:09We will see the end of you.
27:11Your ED, your CBI, your income tax, your trolls, your media,
27:16your bought out judges, nobody can scare us.
27:19The people of India are patient.
27:21They will wait patiently for this government to fall.
27:24And I hope that whoever writes the next speech
27:27for the Honorable President of India,
27:29will give her the respect and the honor due
27:31by not filling it with falsity.
27:33This government has dishonored the office of the President
27:36by giving her a script that is full of lies.
27:39We wait, and the people of India wait,
27:41for the restoration of her honor
27:43and for the honor of her August office.
27:45It is in this hope that I bow my head
27:48to the holiest of our books in its 75th year of adoption.
27:51Hail the Constitution.
27:53Joy Shambhidhan.
27:55Thank you.
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