00:00How do you see these energy prices?
00:02It is absolutely shameful and the government of India should withdraw this immediately.
00:06And I'll tell you why.
00:08It was through sources-based information that media was being fed
00:11that no impact of the war will be borne by the people of this country.
00:15At the very first instance, in the very first week, you've gone and raised the prices.
00:19And you're making the cost of war should be borne by the citizens of this country.
00:23Why was it that the benefits of oil prices that you all got,
00:27the discounted oil that you all got,
00:28the Indians didn't get the benefit of it?
00:31You all kept hoarding the money that you all got.
00:32The oil companies kept making money.
00:34The government of India kept making money.
00:36The advantage was not passed on to the people of this country.
00:39And at the first instance of risk that we are seeing,
00:43and for the government to be able to absorb it,
00:45for all the money you have collected by not passing on the discounted oil price to the Indians,
00:50you all have gone and raised the prices?
00:51It's a shame and they need to roll this back.
00:54The cost of the war won't be borne by the people of this country.
00:57It is for the government of India, which has been not just the taxpayers' money,
01:02but also not passing off the benefits of the cheap oil that they purchased over the years,
01:05made profit out of.
01:07They cannot have the citizens of this country pay for it.
01:12There's a debate going on, the language used by the U.S. official when it comes to giving exemption to
01:17India,
01:17for buying U.S. wine, that is to allow, the word was used allowed.
01:20How do you see the language used by U.S. officials?
01:23You know, it smacks of, and the silence coming from the government of India,
01:28smacks of total surrender to the whims and fancies of a U.S. president.
01:33U.S. president first, you know, the trade that was going on between India and the United States
01:39was a healthy trade, strategic interest and strategic deepening of friendship has happened,
01:44but it was disrupted.
01:45From a 3% tariff, it moved to 55% tariff, to now an 18% tariff,
01:50and BGP is trying to tell us that it's a success story.
01:53And this tariff has come at what cost?
01:55That we have surrendered our strategic rights, our strategic interests,
02:00and our energy security needs on the whims and fancies of United States of America.
02:04And the language is exactly that.
02:07The language comes from a space of arrogance that they know that India has surrendered
02:13the choice that they can make, the independent choices that they can make.
02:16So it's shameful, and the government of India needs to clarify to us,
02:19and we have been repeatedly saying this,
02:21this trade agreement has not come at the back of equal opportunities on equal terms.
02:26It's an unfair trade agreement.
02:27Tell us what was compromised for you to get this trade deal,
02:31and why were these compromises made with United States of America?
02:36There are nobody to tell us where we buy oil from,
02:38at what price we buy it, who we buy it from.
02:41This is not something that comes in U.S.'s domain.
02:43That is one and only India's responsibility,
02:46Indian's responsibility, the government of India's responsibility,
02:48which they have sacrificed at the altar of power.
Comments