Ghulam Nabi Azad Bids Emotional Farewell To Parliament

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Congress leader Ghulam Nabi Azad remembered his Kashmiri Pandit friends, the 2006 terror attack and his relationship with PM Modi as he said goodbye to his colleagues in Parliament.

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00:00I feel proud that I am an Indian Muslim.

00:10Believe me, Mr. Prime Minister, there have been many ups and downs, but you have never felt bad.

00:16The heart is not hopeless, it is a failure.

00:21The heart is not hopeless, it is a failure.

00:24It is a long night of grief.

00:30The heart is not hopeless, it is a failure.

00:39I have always thought that we are very fortunate.

00:46I am one of those fortunate people who have never been to Pakistan.

00:51But when I read about the situation in Pakistan, I feel proud that I am an Indian Muslim.

01:12I feel proud that I am an Indian Muslim.

01:16I feel proud that I am an Indian Muslim.

01:24For the past 30-35 years, from Afghanistan to Iraq,

01:34I have seen how Muslim countries are fighting with each other.

01:46There are no Hindus, Christians, or others who are fighting among themselves.

01:54And the culture is that the sympathizers are outside Pakistan.

01:59I have come to listen, I have never been there.

02:01But we should not say bad things about other countries.

02:07But we can proudly say that may God never bring such bad things to our Muslims.

02:15So today we can proudly say this.

02:18But here, the majority community also needs to take two steps forward.

02:24When I became the Chief Minister in November 2005,

02:29and when the Darbar Kashmir was inaugurated in May,

02:34I was welcomed with the sacrifice of my brothers and sisters in Gujarat.

02:41I had just arrived two days ago.

02:44The militant's way of welcoming us was to kill the poor.

02:52It meant that we were there.

02:55It meant that we should not live in this misunderstanding.

02:58In Nishad Bagh, which is adjacent to the Raj Bhawan,

03:03there was a Gujarat bus written on it.

03:08In that bus, about 40-50 of our brothers, sisters, and tourists from Gujarat

03:16were shot by a grenade.

03:19And I think more than a dozen people were injured there.

03:28I immediately reached the place, but by then the police had removed it.

03:33Then I met the Prime Minister, he also spoke to the Defence Minister,

03:38I also spoke to the Prime Minister.

03:40A plane came to pick them up, the Mi-8.

03:42But when I reached the airport,

03:48obviously the security said that the Chief Minister was coming, the Chief Minister was coming.

03:52All of them were ready to go to the airport.

03:56Our injured brothers, small children.

04:01So when I reached the airport,

04:04these children, whose father had died, whose mother had died,

04:08when they hugged my legs in tears,

04:12my voice came out with force.

04:16Oh God, what have you done?

04:19How do I answer these children?

04:23How do I answer those sisters

04:28who had come here for recreation, for a walk.

04:33And today I am handing over their bodies.

04:37Their parents' bodies.

04:42So this is something that needs to happen.

04:48Today,

04:52we pray to Allah, to God,

04:56that from this country,

04:59militancy should end.

05:02That terrorism should end from this country.

05:08I want to say this poem

05:11to my Kashmiri Pandit brothers and sisters.

05:14When I used to study in Kashmir,

05:17when I used to win the most votes in the university,

05:21the Kashmiri Pandits used to vote for me the most.

05:26They are my friends. Today they are scattered.

05:28I feel very sad when I meet them,

05:31my classmates.

05:34This poem is for those Kashmiri Pandits

05:37who have lost their homes,

05:40for those Kashmiri widows

05:43who have lost their children,

05:46and for those who have scattered.

05:49This poem is for them.

05:52It has passed,

05:55and I can say this for those who have died.

05:58It has passed,

06:00which was a small story.

06:03It has passed,

06:06which was a small story.

06:09It was a flower, a garden, a home.

06:13It has passed,

06:16which was a small story.

06:19It was a flower, a garden, a home.

06:23Don't ask the story of the drunkard.

06:26Don't ask the story of the drunkard.

06:30Don't ask the story of the drunkard.

06:33It has passed,

06:36which was a small story.

06:40Don't ask the story of the drunkard.

06:44It was a flower, a garden, a home.

06:48We, the Kashmiris,

06:52should make it a small story once again

06:56I have done a lot of work, I have served a lot of people, I have received a lot of blessings from everyone.

07:04I would like to say that the heart is not hopeless, it is a failure.

07:11The heart is not hopeless, it is a failure.

07:15The evening of sorrow is long, it is only the evening.

07:19How long will it be? The morning has come, in winter it is a little long.

07:23The evening of sorrow is long, it is only the evening.

07:27The morning will come again.

07:29Believe me, Mr. Prime Minister, many times there was a clash and you never felt bad.

07:35During the time of LOP, there were many long speeches, yours and mine.

07:41Especially on the speech of the President.

07:45There used to be a long speech, sometimes we used to take responsibility for LOP.

07:55But you never gave it personally against you.

08:00You always kept the responsibility of the personal contact score party away.

08:09Whether it is Eid, Diwali or birthday, you never missed a call.

08:17Either my party president used to call or you used to call.

08:21Our Prime Minister and Congress President used to call.

08:26This personal touch makes a person emotional.

08:37And my contact with the opposition has never been from today.

08:41From the first time I became an M.O.S. till today.

08:45Because we can run the country together.

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