After Cambridge, Rahul Gandhi trained his guns at the BJP in London...
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00:00The person who defames India when he goes abroad is the Prime Minister of India.
00:03BJP wants India to be silent.
00:17There is nothing defaming India in my Cambridge lecture.
00:21Last I recall the Prime Minister going abroad and announcing that there has been nothing
00:25done in 60 years of independence, 70 years of independence.
00:29I remember him saying that, you know, there is a lost decade of 10 years, there is unlimited
00:35corruption in India.
00:36I remember him saying them abroad.
00:39These were not things he said in India.
00:40These were things he said abroad, right.
00:43So, I have never defamed my country.
00:46I am not interested in it.
00:47I will never do it.
00:49Of course, the BJP like to twist what I say.
00:54That's fine.
00:55And the media likes to sort of play it up.
00:57I mean, it gives you TRPs and all, but the fact of the matter is the person who defames
01:01India when he goes abroad is the Prime Minister of India.
01:03The structures of our democracy are under brutal attack.
01:09The media, the institutional frameworks, judiciary, parliament, these are all under attack.
01:17And we were finding it very difficult to put the voice, our own voice and also the voice
01:24of the people through the normal channels.
01:28Normally, the media would pick up these issues, but the media doesn't pick up these issues.
01:34And it's a tragedy in India.
01:35I mean, I will give you an example.
01:38The three things that I heard and universally from young people across the board, unemployment,
01:47price rise, concentration of wealth, violence against women, none of these are in the media.
01:53The idea behind the Yatra was an expression of voice.
01:58And there is suppression of voice across the country.
02:01Suppression of voice, example is the BBC.
02:05But BBC is just one element of it.
02:10You found out, well, the BBC has found out about it now, but it's been going on in India
02:16for the last nine years, non-stop.
02:21Everybody knows that.
02:22Journalists are intimidated, they are attacked, they are threatened.
02:27And you know, the journalists who tow the line of the government are rewarded.
02:31So it's a part of a pattern and I wouldn't expect anything different.
02:36If the BBC stops writing against the government, everything will go back to normal.
02:43All the cases will disappear, everything will go back to normal.
02:46So this is the new idea of India.
02:49The BJP wants India to be silent and they want it to be quiet.
02:53They want the Dalits, the lower caste, the adivasis, the media, they want silence.
03:00And they want silence because they want to be able to take what is India's and give it
03:04to their close friends.
03:07So that's basically the idea, right?
03:08Distract the population and then hand over India's wealth to three, four, five people.
03:16We've seen this before also.