00:00Bihar is a very crucial election and it is for us to make sure that Bihar doesn't go the Maharashtra way.
00:06As I said, Bihar should go the Jharkhand way.
00:09So, we'll have to stop the BJP here because otherwise if they get a chance,
00:14they will turn Bihar into another laboratory of bulldozer raj.
00:30For me, Bhagat Singh was the pioneer of the left movement.
00:35He never became a formerly a member of the Communist Party.
00:38But he probably came up with the first prototype of a communist program for India.
00:45Today, of course, we are in an unprecedented situation the last 10 years.
00:50Without any parallel, no previous decade of India, even in colonial period.
00:55Every non-Hindutra trend in modern India, it has basically suffered a lot in the last 10 years.
01:06The communist movement had a very down-to-earth kind of style of work, very hardworking, nothing superficial.
01:15So, today the RSS is also in everything they will say Ghar Ghar Ghar, Sindhu, even they wanted to take it Ghar Ghar.
01:21So, you know, to go right down to the peoples, you know, everywhere, the villages.
01:28So, that kind of a grassroots approach, which is, I think, a vintage communist style of work, which they have now adopted.
01:36Today's right-wingers, the RSS, the Hindu Mahasava, they were a very marginal force then.
01:43So, if the balance of forces, it is because of the left strength, so there was a left or center-left kind of balance of forces,
01:53which kept the right-wing forces, the far-right today's, on the margin.
01:59This constitution was, became a very natural constitution for India then, whereas today, you find that the RSS and the BJP,
02:11every time they are trying to redefine Indian nationalism and Hindu nationalism.
02:15Whereas that time, Indian nationalism was inclusive, secular, and it was anti-imperialist.
02:22So, I think the left played a big role in shaping national consciousness, the texture of Indian nationalism, and the vision of modern India.
02:32Vyar has been fighting, from the days of independence.
02:34So, even the survival of Bihar, you know, left is not just change, even survival, it needs a left movement.
02:42And from survival to change.
02:45And this is what the left movement is about.
02:52We have had the same government for 20 years, so Bihar is basically, today, fed up with this government.
03:01So, there is a cry for change.
03:04As we say, Badlo Sarkar, Badlo Bihar.
03:07That's the kind of demand or, you know, cry which is coming from every village.
03:12So, we'll have to make sure that we succeed in doing this.
03:15And I think it's possible, it's possible.
03:17The BJP is, of course, trying, but even in the Lok Sabha, too, we managed to inflict some blows to the BJP.
03:26Let's hope that Bihar is able to stop the BJP and this government, which has been here for 20 years, get rid of this government.
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