It’s open season between the government and the opposition as the migrant crisis festers.
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00:00Is this a drama?
00:02Is this the time to sit next to a migrant and talk to him?
00:09Mr. Nirmala, dear Mr. Modi,
00:12Do you think the helplessness of the workers is a drama now?
00:16Do you think the workers who walk with bare feet,
00:20shoes and sandals, walking thousands of kilometers,
00:24is a drama now?
00:30Is this the time to sit next to a migrant and talk to him?
00:34Is this the time to sit next to a migrant and talk to him?
00:38Is this the time to sit next to a migrant and talk to him?
00:57They should talk to their government,
01:00Congress or their alliance parties,
01:06talk to them, cooperate with them,
01:12order more trains,
01:14and send the migrants to their homes by sitting in the train.
01:19Instead of sitting next to a migrant and talking to him,
01:31it would be better to sit next to a migrant and talk to him.
01:40I am saying this with sadness.
01:43You can say it easily.
01:45Helpless workers are getting beaten up on the streets.
01:50And you are crying for their self-respect and survival.
01:55Mr. Nirmala, dear Mr. Modi,
01:58Do you think the helplessness of the workers is a drama now?
02:02Do you think the workers who walk with bare feet,
02:06shoes and sandals, walking thousands of kilometers,
02:10is a drama now?
02:12Do you think the workers who walk hungry and thirsty
02:16are a drama now?
02:18Do you think the workers who pick up food on their stomachs
02:22are a drama now?
02:27135 lives were taken away by the workers,
02:31but do you think they are a drama now?
02:34Don't insult the workers of the country.
02:39This is a huge insult.
02:42Why doesn't the Congress Party tell its own states
02:45to get more trains from the central government?
02:49To make the migrants sit in them.
02:52Because the Congress Party says that it is a drama every day.
02:58I want to use their words now.
03:01Is it a drama?
03:03Is it time to sit next to a migrant and talk to him?
03:10Is it time?
03:12Isn't it a drama?
03:15I want to join hands with the opposition party
03:18and say with humility,
03:20we all have to work together on the issue of migrants.
03:26The insensitive, interest-hungry and sympathetic government
03:31should apologize to Mr. Nirmala and Mr. Modi
03:34and apologize to the workers of the country.
03:39Mr. Rahul went to share his pain.
03:42If sharing pain is a crime,
03:44then we will do it again and again.
03:46Is it a crime to make the mute government
03:48explain the pain and suffering of the workers?
03:51If this is a crime,
03:53then the Congress Party and Rahul Gandhi
03:55will do this crime again and again.
03:57We are not a drama like Mr. Modi.
03:59When we want votes,
04:01we wash the feet of the workers.
04:03And when for 63-70-80 days,
04:05the workers are suffering,
04:08they don't even forgive the ticket fare.
04:13Mr. Modi, Mr. Nirmala,
04:15the workers of this country
04:17are shouting at you,
04:19they are saying you have insulted
04:22the workers and employees of this country.
04:25Apologize to them immediately.
04:27Labor, liquidity and laws
04:29all have been emphasized in this package.
04:33So, a message from the pandemic,
04:39the challenges that it throws,
04:42the crisis and the challenge,
04:45and also looking at a self-reliant Bharat,
04:51an India which is going to be
04:53strong enough to meet the global challenges,
04:57but primarily looking at land, labor,
05:00liquidity and laws to bring
05:02that strength back to India
05:04and build a self-reliant India.
05:07They are wrong on liquidity,
05:09they are giving a spin.
05:11Liquidity works on the supply side.
05:14You give liquidity to banks
05:17to lend to say MSMEs.
05:20That means MSMEs can supply more.
05:23But there must be demand.
05:25Fiscal stimulus works on the demand side.
05:29The government is being opportunistic.
05:31It's bypassing the stakeholder consultation process.
05:35It is bypassing legislation in Parliament.
05:40It is bypassing a discussion in Parliament.
05:43And all this will be resisted and challenged.
05:46If there is a genuine reform
05:48that takes the economy forward,
05:49we will support it,
05:50but we will have to read the fine print.
05:52The number of people
05:54to whom directly to their accounts
05:57money could reach because technology,
06:00direct benefit transfer technology
06:03was in time adopted and implemented
06:06with such missionaries' will
06:08over the last four years.
06:09Otherwise this wouldn't have been possible at all.
06:11I think the government is living in an echo chamber.
06:14They listen to their own voices,
06:16they listen to their own opinion.
06:18We will continue to plug the narrative
06:22that this fiscal package is only
06:241,86,000 odd crore.
06:27And not one rupee is going by way of
06:29direct cash transfer to the poor families,
06:33nor is one rupee going by way of
06:35direct cash transfer to the migrant worker.
06:38In order to benefit migrant workers,
06:41we are coming up with a national portability of the cards,
06:45which is public distribution ration cards
06:48can be used in any ration car,
06:51any ration shop,
06:53in any part of the country,
06:55as you move along.
06:57So, if there is a ration card holder,
07:01today he is in Bihar or Karnataka,
07:04tomorrow he moves to Rajasthan,
07:07he can take his food ration
07:10from any ration shop in that state.
07:13So, national portability,
07:15which is now being defined as
07:16one nation, one ration card.
07:19One nation, one ration card
07:22can be done maybe in two, three months.
07:24But the remaining conditions like
07:26ease of doing business,
07:28the DISCOM reforms,
07:29those will take time,
07:31which means most of the year will be out.
07:34You have to borrow today.
07:36The states want the headroom to borrow more.