00:00Sir, you are walking along with other leaders. What exactly is the demand, sir?
00:06Our demand should be a repoll, dismissal of the election commissioner and see that postal ballot will start.
00:21You are demanding that the CEC, Mr. Gyanesh Kumar, be dismissed?
00:25Yes, of course, he has to be dismissed. Repoll has to be organized in all those states where they have
00:31won through FCR.
00:32But Mr. D.K. Shif Kumar, the BJP says that you raise the issue of vote theory only when you
00:39lose elections.
00:40But in the states such as Karnataka or in Kerala, when you have won elections, you don't say that.
00:46In spite of their vote theory, our people have given us a mandate.
00:52Walking on the streets, are you happy the kind of turnout you've seen?
00:55Yes, it's a massive turnout and it's full of India Alliance. All the colleagues are there.
01:00And the march is a positive march. It shows the mind of every youth and every woman and every student
01:11of this country.
01:13And the India Alliance is united and we are standing together on an important day in the history of India.
01:20All right, sir. Good luck. Thank you for joining us.
01:23Walking on your way in protest, in solidarity. Are you happy with the kind of crowds that have come in?
01:29Well, actually, I've been happy with the crowds in the last two months.
01:33For the first time, we've seen the kind of crowds that have come in for your call.
01:37You made that call yesterday asking for civil society, students, youth.
01:41Right, right. No, that's encouraging.
01:42But please remember, you know, my sense of satisfaction comes from a fact that both the issues in which most
01:49of India is agitated are both something that Mr. Gandhi personally raised.
01:52And, you know, and for me to look at it politically, I'm not particularly concerned as to who leads the
01:57protests on the streets.
01:59It's who ideates it. It's really something that he brought out.
02:02He convinced Indians who were not convinced that there was something dastardly wrong going on.
02:07And I think people have kind of thought about that, accepted it, taken it as their own idea.
02:12And I think if you really ask, especially young people of India, I don't think they are worried under whose
02:16banner they are.
02:17They are under the banner of reclaiming their nation.
02:19There have been constant, you know, two press conferences back to back from the Bharatiya Janata Party.
02:25We had Anurag Thakur who just spoke, earlier on senior BJP leader Shivarad Singh Chauhan just spoke,
02:32basically suggesting that you're playing into a foreign hand to try and instill anarchy on the streets of the national
02:40capital in the country.
02:41You know, I don't want to belittle what the government say, but I almost want to say yawn.
02:46I think I've heard about this just too many times.
02:49Sorry, I mean, there's a particular expression in English saying yawn.
02:52It's really that.
02:53And my thing is, you are the government.
02:55You are not only the government, you claim that you have perhaps the world's most popular leader as your prime
02:59minister.
03:00Every nation in the country bows to you.
03:02In fact, they're scared of you.
03:03So find out who's supporting us.
03:06If you're thinking that such large leaders are doing something anti-national,
03:09they should not be allowed on the streets.
03:12Fair point, sir. Good luck.
03:13Mumtaz Patel, interesting choice of color?
03:17Well, it could mean a lot of things.
03:19And also probably for my own safety and protection,
03:22we saw the Bajrangal goons and the anti-social elements out on the streets yesterday,
03:28who were not being detained, by the way.
03:30Media journalists were being detained.
03:31Lawyers were being detained.
03:33Public was being detained.
03:34But those goons were all allowed to unleash their violence on the streets, on innocent people.
03:40So, yeah, I mean, what is going on?
03:43And all I can say is that this government knows that its days are numbered.
03:48They're trying very hard, very, very hard to protect one man, Gyanesh Kumar.
03:53Why?
03:53Why is the BJP trying so hard?
03:55And also unleashing the kind of violence it is via the police and security on its own citizens.
04:02What is the fear about?
04:04I don't understand.
04:05But, Ms. Patel, were you surprised that today the kind of police presence or other, you know,
04:11forces are not there in as much strength in numbers?
04:13Well, the Supreme Court did give out instructions yesterday that barricades cannot be put unnecessarily,
04:21people cannot be detained.
04:23Yesterday, we didn't see them following the Supreme Court orders.
04:25But hopefully, hopefully today, things might be better.
04:29But we wouldn't still be surprised if the police has some action plan after some time.
04:35We can see that Rahulji is now marching on the road.
04:37We're all together.
04:38And this is just the big thing.
04:40This is going to carry on now until and unless Gyanesh Kumar resigns.
04:45And after Gyanesh Kumar resigns, this government will also fall.
04:48I want to ask you one quick question.
04:50The last question.
04:50When there have been two press conferences, the government has taken a clear hard stand
04:55this time.
04:56Shivrad Singh Chauhan a short while ago and Anurag Thakur right now has practically said
05:02that this is a foreign hand which the Congress is playing into to create anarchy on the streets
05:07of the country.
05:08Foreign hand and communal tension, the easiest excuses this government has.
05:13They'll play on hyper-nationalism and communalism.
05:15And very soon, we might not be surprised if there's a call out for some war or some terror
05:20incident happens so that the whole narrative can be diverted.
05:23These are very old tactics by the BJP government.
05:26It worked probably from 2014 up till even a few years ago.
05:30But now the government, now the public is very well aware that these are just diversionary
05:35tactics.
05:35They're not going to fall for it, which is why you are seeing now that it's not just the
05:39opposition, but there is public from all across the country that is protesting on this issue
05:45and many other issues.
05:46Thank you, Ms. Patel, for joining us.
