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In a fiery speech in the Lok Sabha, Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi compared the nation to a fabric woven by the 'vote' and said 'vote chori' is the biggest anti-national act.
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00:00on Khadi why was it that he framed the entire Indian freedom struggle around
00:12the concept of Khadi and why is it that he only wore Khadi because Khadi is not
00:27just a cloth Khadi is the expression of the people of India it is the imagination it
00:41is the sentiment it is the productive force of the people of Khadi it is it is
00:52the expression of the people of India it's because whichever state you go to you
01:05will find different fabrics there's the Himachali cap Assamese gumcha
01:17banarsi saree kanchi puram saree naga jacket and you will find that all these fabrics
01:29represent the people when the people of Assam give you the gumcha they're not just giving you a piece of cloth
01:43they're giving you an expression they're giving you a piece of their history their tradition their future their imagination
01:50it's the same when the Nagas wear their jacket when they come and see us they make us wear the jacket because they want us to be embraced by the fabric
02:01but it's because sir these fabrics are beautiful but if you look slightly deeper and you look closely at the fabric you will find
02:06They make us wear the jacket, because they want us to be embraced by the fabric.
02:14It's because, sir, these fabrics are beautiful, but if you look slightly deeper, and you look
02:25closely at the fabric, you will find that each one of them has thousands of little threads
02:40embracing each other.
02:43A Kanchi Puram Sadi might have a golden thread, but the golden thread means nothing without
02:52the green thread or the yellow thread near it.
02:59The other thing to notice about the Sadi or any other fabric is that all the threads are
03:09equal.
03:12No one thread is superior to another thread.
03:14They all come together.
03:17The threads cannot protect you.
03:19The threads cannot keep you warm.
03:22But when they come together as a fabric, they can keep you warm.
03:28They can protect you.
03:29They can express what you have in the heart.
03:32It's because, sir, in the same way, our nation is also a fabric.
03:42It's a fabric made up of 1.4 billion people, and the fabric is woven together by the vote.
03:54Let me repeat it.
03:55It is a fabric of 1.5 billion people, and it is woven together by the vote.
04:07Everything that we see.
04:11In fact, this house where I'm standing today, the Lok Sabha, Rajya Sabha, Vidhan Sabhas across
04:19the country, Panchaits across the country, none of them would exist if the vote did not exist.
04:30We talk with great pride about HAL, BHEL, ONGC, Tejas, Chandrayaan.
04:42We have a list of things we say.
04:45Not one of those would exist without the vote.
04:56Speaker, sir, it is the idea that every thread, every person in the Union of India is equal,
05:12that disturbs my friends in the RSS.
05:17They are happy to see the fabric, but they cannot stand the idea that every single person
05:24in the fabric of our country, regardless of what religion they come from, regardless of
05:30what community they come from, regardless of what language they speak, should be equal.
05:35Because they fundamentally do not believe in equality.
05:40They believe in a hierarchy, and they believe that they should be on top of that house.
05:47Speaker, sir, on the 30th of January 1948, three bullets pierced the chest of Mahatma Gandhi.
06:04Nathuram Ghatseh assassinated the father of our nation.
06:15Today, our friends do not embrace him.
06:27Today our friends have pushed him away.
06:33It is an uncomfortable truth.
06:35But that's not where the project ended.
06:39You see, as I said, everything has emerged from the vote.
06:46All the institutions have emerged from the vote.
06:53So it's obvious that the RSS has to capture all the institutions that have emerged from the
07:00vote.
07:01So the project, after Gandhiji's assassination, the next step of the project was the wholesale
07:11capture of India's institutional framework.
07:14So what is this, sir?
07:24So what is this, sir?
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07:56Please?
07:57Sir?
07:58Sir, these are uncomfortable truths, but they have to be spoken.
08:28My friends don't like the connections I'm making, they're disturbed by them, it's obvious.
08:42So after the father of the nation was assassinated, his vision of an equal India, of an India where
08:56institutions belong to the people had to be destroyed.
09:01And so the process started and the RSS attempted to capture one institution after the other.
09:13And I will give some examples so that it is crystal clear that this is the case.
09:18Everybody knows how vice chancellors are placed on top of Indian universities today.
09:25Every single person knows this.
09:28You go to any university, you speak to any youngster in India, he will tell you that it does not
09:34matter whether the professor has qualifications.
09:38It does not matter whether the professor has a scientific temperament.
09:43The only thing that matters is the professor belongs.
09:46I am speaking.
09:47Sir.
09:48I am speaking.
09:49Sir, we will listen to this.
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11:23I don't want to say anything about it, but I don't want to say anything about it.
11:39Should I leave?
11:42Should I leave?
11:44Should I leave?
11:46What is that you are a parliamentary affairs minister?
11:56You are a parliamentary affairs minister.
11:59You are a parliamentary affairs minister.
12:04The discussion is about the vote and electoral...
12:15The discussion is about the vote...
12:18Sir, I don't want to say anything.
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12:50I want to make it very clear, the discussion is about votes, the discussion is about the
13:15stealing of votes, the discussion is about the SIR, and I am framing my discussion about
13:21votes.
13:23And what is happening here is patently unfair.
13:27I am not being allowed to speak, I am being disturbed, and I put my protest here.
13:33I have done absolutely nothing wrong, I am talking about the subject, in order to capture
13:40the vote you have to capture institutions.
13:43I am saying that institutions of India are captured, and I will come to the point which
13:47is election commission is captured.
13:52So the project of the RSS was to capture the institutional framework of the country.
14:00And I said how the education system has been captured, vice chancellor after vice chancellor
14:06after vice chancellor is placed not on merit, not on capability, not on scientific temper,
14:14but on the fact that he belongs to a particular organization.
14:18The second capture, which helps in destroying democracy.
14:24The capture of the intelligence agencies, we have the home minister sitting here, the capture
14:30of the CBI, of the ED, of the income tax department.
14:34And the systematic placement of bureaucrats who favor their ideology and attack the opposition,
14:44and anybody who chooses to oppose the RSS.
14:47That is the second institutional capture.
14:50And the third institute, there are many more, I can go on.
14:55And the third institutional capture…
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15:01Nonier, please.
15:05You can mean, not the defense, nor do youify the How?
15:12Nonier, please.
15:17Nonier, please.
15:19Nonier, please.
15:23And the third election, the third capture of the institution that directly controls
15:42the election system of our country, the Election Commission.
15:48Now, I am not saying this without proof.
15:53I have put forth adequate proof about how the Election Commission is colluding, is colluding
16:04with those in power to shape the elections.
16:09But I want to ask three questions first, which will make it very clear that the BJP is directing
16:20and using the Election Commission to damage India's democracy.
16:28The first question, why is it that the CJI was removed from the selection panel of the
16:37Election Commissioner?
16:38What motivation could there be to remove the CJI?
16:45Do we not believe in the CJI?
16:47Of course we believe in the CJI.
16:49Is he not in that room?
16:51I sit in that room.
16:55It is so-called a democratic decision.
16:58On one side, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Mr. Amit Shah.
17:02On the other side, the Leader of the Opposition.
17:04I have no voice in that room.
17:07What they decide is what happens.
17:08So, the first question, why is the Prime Minister and Amit Shah so keen on choosing exactly who
17:14the Election Commissioner is going to be?
17:17Second question, and even more devastating question, no Prime Minister has done this in
17:27the history of India.
17:30In December 2023, this government changed the law.
17:37They changed the law to make sure that no Election Commissioner could be punished for any action
17:45they take while they are Election Commissioner.
17:50Why would the Prime Minister and Home Minister give this gift of immunity to the Election Commissioner?
17:59Why would they need to give this tremendous gift that no Prime Minister has given ever before
18:06to the Election Commissioner?
18:10Mr. Shah is looking into the ceiling.
18:12Maybe he will answer this question when he speaks.
18:17Finally, why was the law with regards to CCTVs and the data that they contain changed?
18:30Why was a law put in place that allows the Election Commission to destroy CCTV footage 45 days after the election?
18:44What is the need?
18:46The answer given is it is a question of data.
18:50It is not a question of data.
18:51It is a question of stealing the election.
18:56Now, what is the result of this institutional capture?
19:03What is the result of controlling the Chief Election Commissioner and the Election Commission?
19:09First of all, we have a set of election campaigns that are tailored for the Prime Minister.
19:20Three-month, four-month, five-month long campaigns are taking place so that the Prime Minister's
19:25schedule can be fitted in to the programme.
19:30Second, we have a Brazilian woman who appears 22 times on the voter list of Haryana.
19:39Please, no, 22 times this lady appears.
19:53One minute, please.
19:54Please, one minute.
19:56Please, one minute.
19:57Please, one minute.
19:59I have reached the company Madam Professor.
20:05Over.
20:07Yes, that is a subject of República too much.
20:10I have prepared those demands, we have written our DivineAR.
20:14The process is not the right move.
20:15it's not going to happen.
20:18Do you take it?
20:22No, no, I'm not saying that you are going to a better place,
20:27let me explain the subject.
20:31No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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21:09Speaker, sir, I don't agree with the showing of photographs here, but it is a reflection
21:18of our democratic structure.
21:20This is what is happening in our democracy, that you're not allowing us to show.
21:24This Brazilian woman has appeared 22 times on the voter list in Ariana.
21:30And not only that, there is one woman whose name has appeared 200 times, more than 200
21:37times in one booth in Haryana.
21:42And it is very clear and I have proven without doubt that the election of Haryana was stolen
21:49and the theft was ensured by the election commission of India.
21:52I've said it again and again and again.
21:55Now, nowhere has the election commission answered my questions.
22:05The election commission has not told me why this lady's picture has appeared on the polling
22:12list.
22:13They have not told me why lakhs and lakhs of duplicate voters are existing.
22:18They have not told me why a BJP leader is coming from Uttar Pradesh to vote in Haryana.
22:24These are straightforward questions.
22:25And there is clear proof which I have put in front of the country.
22:32Right?
22:33But the election commission has no answer to these questions.
22:35And that is the result of the complete capture of the election commission by the people across
22:42the aisle.
22:47By the way, you are talking about SIR in Bihar, let me say something about SIR in Bihar.
22:53Why is it that after the SIR in Bihar, 1.2 lakh duplicate photos are existing in Bihar, in
23:02the voting list?
23:03If you have cleaned up the voting list, why are there 1.2 lakh duplicates in Bihar?
23:08And we have not just proven this about Haryana.
23:13We have proven this in Karnataka, we have proven this in Maharashtra, and I am absolutely
23:18certain this is how you are winning elections in Madhya Pradesh, in Uttar Pradesh, in Bihar,
23:23across the country.
23:26Now, so what I am putting on the table is it is very clear that you have captured the institution.
23:36I have shown the mechanism of that capture.
23:38I am also showing you how the election commission is doing things that are completely out of
23:44line.
23:45I am not getting any answers.
23:47Right?
23:48So now, let us come to how when we are talking about electoral reform.
23:56Electoral reform is very simple.
23:58The point is, nobody wants to do it.
24:01The government doesn't want to do it.
24:03What does electoral reform require?
24:05What we have been saying.
24:07Number one.
24:08Give machine-readable voter lists to all political parties one month before the election.
24:20That's the first step.
24:21The second step is take back the law that allows the destruction of CCTVs.
24:28CCTV footage.
24:30Very simple.
24:32Not difficult.
24:34While you are doing that, also tell us what is the architecture of the EVM.
24:39Give us access to the EVM.
24:40Give us access to the EVM.
24:41Yes.
24:42Let our experts go and see what is inside the EVM.
24:44Yes.
24:45Till today, we have not had access to the EVM.
24:49We are not shown the architecture of the EVM.
24:52We are not physically allowed to go and see an EVM.
24:55Give us the architecture.
24:57Give us access to the EVM.
24:59And finally, please change the law that allows the election commissioner to get away with whatever
25:05he wants to do.
25:07That's all the electoral reforms you need.
25:10And I want to assure the election commissioner that they might be under the impression that
25:16this law lets them get away with it.
25:19Let me remind them.
25:21Don't worry.
25:22Don't worry.
25:23We are going to change the law.
25:25And we are going to change it retroactively.
25:27And we are going to come and find you.
25:30Right?
25:31So this is the situation that the country is faced with.
25:36You know, everybody says to us, India is the biggest democracy.
25:41Actually, I was thinking today, we are not just the biggest democracy.
25:46We are the greatest democracy.
25:48And I'm not saying it just like that.
25:51I'm saying it.
25:53America calls itself the oldest democracy.
25:56But the democracy that weaves together the largest number of people, the diversity,
26:05the largest diversity of people, the largest number of languages, the largest number of
26:11states is this.
26:14And so, our most powerful asset.
26:18The thing that stitches together, the entire concept of modern India, stitches together the
26:26fabric of modern India, brings people together, allows them to build this great nation, is
26:31being attacked by these people.
26:33They're destroying it.
26:35You know they're destroying it.
26:36You know they're destroying it.
26:37I know they're destroying it.
26:38And they know they're destroying it.
26:42And I'd like to conclude by saying that the biggest anti-national act you can do is vote
26:51There is no bigger anti-national act that you can do than vote churi.
26:58Because when you destroy the vote, you destroy the fabric of this country.
27:06You destroy modern India, you destroy the idea of India.
27:10So I'd like to conclude by saying vote churi is an anti-national act.
27:17And those across the aisle are doing an anti-national act.
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