He was given two weeks, and a House wrought with opposition, but the former Prime Minister sure went down swinging. Watch Atal Bihari Vajpayee's greatest resignation speech on his birthday.
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00:00The party is going to run for 365 days.
00:04It's not going to stand like a cuckoo in an election.
00:10But we will still sit in the form of the biggest opposition party in the Sadan.
00:15And you will have to run the Sadan with our co-operation.
00:18Don't forget this.
00:19I am going to give my resignation letter to the President.
00:25This is a cow belt.
00:26This is the support of the cow belt.
00:29The cow belt that is eaten,
00:32we have to include it in the Sadan like this.
00:37Which region are you talking about?
00:40Haryana.
00:41We live in Haryana.
00:44We have gained support in Karnataka.
00:49And it's okay that we are not as powerful in Kerala and Tamil Nadu,
00:53but we have our organization.
00:56In West Bengal also, we have got a little less than 10%.
01:02If you are talking about votes,
01:05then talk about 10% votes.
01:11In this Sadan, there is a party for each person.
01:15A party for each person.
01:19And they are fighting against us and trying to remove us.
01:25They have every right to try.
01:28But they are one.
01:30A party for each person.
01:32Let's go together.
01:35And let's go together from our constituency and get together in Delhi.
01:42Why should we get together?
01:44For the good of the country.
01:46It is necessary.
01:48We are also serving the country in our own way.
01:52And if we had not been patriots,
01:55and if we had not tried to make our place in politics without any selfish motive,
02:04and our efforts have taken 40 years of Sadhana.
02:10This is not an attractive demand.
02:13This is not a miracle.
02:17We have worked hard.
02:18We have gone among people.
02:19We have fought.
02:21The party is going to run for 365 days.
02:24This is not a party that is going to stand like a cuckoo in an election.
02:30And today, we are being made to stand in a crowd for no reason.
02:35Because we have not been able to whistle a little bit.
02:38I agree that this is our weakness.
02:40We should get a lot of votes.
02:44The President gave us an opportunity.
02:45We tried to take advantage of it.
02:47We did not succeed.
02:48That is a different matter.
02:50But we will still sit in the form of the biggest opposition party in Sadhana.
02:54And you will have to run Sadhana with our co-operation.
02:58Do not forget this.
03:00But in running Sadhana and running it properly,
03:04we will give you full co-operation.
03:06I want to assure you.
03:08But how will you make the government?
03:10Which program will the government be built on?
03:13How will the government run?
03:14I do not know.
03:16But as far as the Dalits are concerned,
03:19there are a total of 77 members of the schedule caste.
03:23And out of them, 29 members are BJP members.
03:38CPIM has 5 members.
03:41CPI has 1 member.
03:43Congress has 15 members.
03:45Janata Dal has 7 members.
03:47And most of them are our members.
03:55In the SCC and Schedule Tribes,
03:59the total number of seats is 41.
04:01BJP has 11.
04:05We do not have a popular base.
04:07We do not get popular support.
04:11If you want to leave us and stay in power,
04:17and you think that the government will be sustainable,
04:20I do not see any sign of it being sustainable.
04:29First of all, it is difficult to take birth.
04:32After taking birth, it is difficult to stay alive.
04:37And how much benefit will this government
04:40be able to bring to the country
04:42which is surrounded by antiracism?
04:44This is a question mark.
04:46For everything, you will have to run to Congress.
04:55And when you depend on them,
04:59I do not know,
05:01earlier there was a discussion,
05:03some conditions are being laid.
05:05We will have to make a coordinating committee.
05:08We coordinate on the floor as well.
05:11Without that, there is no movement.
05:14You want to run the whole country.
05:17That is a very good thing.
05:19We wish you all the best.
05:21We will be committed to serving our country.
05:26We bow our heads in front of the population.
05:30And we assure you that
05:32the work we have undertaken
05:34will not rest until we complete our national mission.
05:39We will not rest until then.
05:41Mr. President,
05:43I am going to give my resignation letter to the President.