00:00Hello and welcome to an India Today special broadcast. I'm Gaurav Savan.
00:04Our top focus on this special show is Prime Minister Narendra Modi's swift counter-attack on the opposition
00:10on the issue of constitution, democracy, farmers and efforts that he's made to improve the plight of farmers
00:19and of course consumers in India through very tough times, whether it was the Russia-Ukraine war or the US
00:24-Iran war.
00:25And over the course of the next one hour, we will talk in detail about the food, fuel, fertilizer crisis
00:32that the world was grappling with and how India was steered through that crisis.
00:37But we will also talk about the internal big fight over democracy and constitution.
00:45So Prime Minister Narendra Modi was speaking at the India Today Aaj Tak Bharat Agriculture Conference.
00:53You had the Anadatas of the country and the Prime Minister of the country both on one platform.
01:01And while the Prime Minister spoke of a number of issues of steps that had been taken in the past
01:0612 years,
01:07he also hit out at the opposition.
01:11And he took a jive when he said those who move around with a copy of the constitution in their
01:16pocket,
01:17they actually think democracy is in their pocket.
01:20He then went on to recount an incident when the UPA was in power and there was this time
01:27when Gujarat was judged the number one state and what transpired.
01:33How the economist who had judged Gujarat as the number one state in economic development
01:39was directly in the line of fire of top UPA leaders, including, according to reports,
01:46the leadership of the Congress Party.
01:49And this was the jive that Prime Minister Narendra Modi took at the opposition.
01:54That they could not even bear to see Gujarat being an opposition state, being judge number one on merits.
02:00There were consequences for that, for the economist, for those who had done so.
02:05But before I get you more on that story and get you more on this political debate,
02:10I want you to listen in to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
02:13We will also get you what the opposition has to say about the current scenario
02:17and then we debate.
02:18But first, listen in to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
02:51कि देश का समिधान, देश का लोगतंतर तो उनकी जीब में है.
03:00सरकार में न रहते हुए भी, ये सत्ता का अलग ही नशा है उनको.
03:10लेकिन जब ये लोग तो सत्ता में थे, के कारणा में कैसे थे, मैं इसके लिए आपको एक छोटा सा
03:21किस्सा सुनाता हूँ.
03:25सात्यों आपको याद होगा, एक जमाने में आप मेडिया के लोग बेश परफॉर्म करने वाले राज्यों की रेंकिंग करते थे.
03:41ऐसा ही एकोनमी से जुड़ी एक रेंकिंग में गुजरात नंबर वन आया और तम मैं गुजरात का मुख्य मंत्री था
03:53और जिस संस्था ने गुजरात को नंबर वन रेंकिंग दी थी उसका नाम देश के पूर्व प्रधान मंत्री के नाम
04:05पर था.
04:08इतना ही हिंट काफी है बाकि आप नाम तो खोजी लेंगे ये रेंकिंग देश के प्रतिष्ठित अर्थसात्यों की रिशर्च के
04:26आधार पर दिया था लेकिन तब दिली की सत्ता पर काबिज लोगों को
04:35गुजरात का सम्मान रास नहीं आया और उन्होंने रिशर्च करने वालों को बाकाइदा आदेश दिया कि ऐसे नहीं चलेगा.
04:51अब कोई भी रिपोर्ट चापने से पहले हम से मन्जुरी लेनी होगी.
05:00साथियों तब ये हालत थी.
05:03और आज बही लोग शहिष्णूता और लोग तंत्र को लेकर ज्ञान देते फिरते हैं.
05:16So the Prime Minister is taking this battle right into the heart of the opposition camp because the opposition has
05:22been raising this issue of democracy being threatened, constitutional values being threatened.
05:28He says the opposition should practice what they preach and look within what was happening when they were in power.
05:35Of course, Priyanka Gandhi-Wadra hit back and hard, as did Akhilesh Yadav of the Savajwadi Party.
05:41Priyanka Gandhi-Wadra said that the opposition was fighting for constitutional values and for preservation of constitutional values and democracy.
05:50Something that wasn't happening with the BJP in power or words to that effect.
05:54Listen in to Priyanka Gandhi-Wadra and to Savajwadi Party's supremo Akhilesh Yadav.
06:00We are fighting for the constitution. We are fighting for the values of the constitution.
06:05Well, to my mind, it's been pretty clear to the public that that is exactly how he is acting.
06:13Because anybody who has anything to say to express themselves is put down and shut down and we've seen that
06:19in the last few months.
06:20We are fighting for the constitution.
06:24We are fighting for the constitution.
06:25We have seen that in which way the Baba Sahib Bhimra Amirajah came to break the constitution.
06:33And the first thing is the attack is the attack.
06:36Because the Baba Sahib Bhimra Amirajah came to the constitution.
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