Many say Ahmed Patel was to Congress what Amit Shah is to the BJP. In 2018, this is how he responded to PM Modi's barb on the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee scheme. Patel died of multi-organ failure on Wednesday. He'd been in hospital since testing positive for Covid-19 a month ago.
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00:00MNREGA is the living monument of your failures.
00:10After 60 years of independence, you had to send people to dig pits.
00:18This is the monument of your failures.
00:21And I will keep beating the drum of this monument.
00:27After that, they said that the UPA government of Congress
00:33left pits for us.
00:36And we are filling those pits now.
00:38I would like to tell them that when BJP's government left in 2004,
00:45the per capita income was only Rs. 24,000.
00:50And when we were the government of Banwansingh, Congress and UPA,
00:55the per capita income was Rs. 70,000 per capita.
01:01In 2014, when we left the government,
01:05our debt was Rs. 50 lakh crore.
01:10Today, Rs. 73 lakh crore has increased by 20-22 percent
01:16in just 3.5-4 years.
01:19After BJP's government,
01:23within 3 months,
01:26we reached Mangalayan Mangal.
01:30So, I would like to ask them,
01:32was this a pit?
01:34The per capita income that we increased was a pit?
01:37And what you are doing is a pit or you have filled it?
01:40Should we talk about Gujarat?
01:43The Prime Minister was there for 12 years.
01:46When he came, everything was of Rs. 43,000 crore.
01:50Today, his debt is Rs. 75 lakh crore.
01:57So, was it a pit?
01:59Or did he dig a pit?
02:00Or did he fill a pit?
02:01So, when they are talking about a pit,
02:03we can say that Congress always fills the pit that BJP's government has dug.
02:11And when he comes, he digs the pit.
02:14So, I would like to tell them that it is very easy to make a government.
02:18It is amazing to get down in the eyes.
02:22It is amazing to get down in the eyes.
02:24It is amazing to scatter on the nafas.
02:27It is not amazing to reach the heights.
02:30But it is amazing to stand on the heights.
02:33They have only one mantra.
02:35How to abuse the Congress and the Congress-Gandhi family.
02:40And to defame them.
02:42LOP said a lot.
02:44But I would like to quote Sardar Patel here.
02:51I have forgotten Sardar Patel's name.
02:53Because he has a lot of love for the Patel family.
02:56And my surname is also Patel.
02:58So, he has a lot of love for me too.
03:00He has a lot of love for Hardik Patel.
03:02And he has a lot of love for the entire Patel community.
03:05But Sardar Patel said,
03:07Blaming others is the laziest thing to do.
03:10Working hard to make a difference is the toughest thing to do.
03:14The lazy ones normally choose the first option.
03:17I don't.
03:18Who is saying this? Sardar Patel is saying this.
03:20Now, he uses their names.
03:22To get votes for Gandhi.
03:24But they don't want to listen to what they are saying.
03:27Now, they are saying that Congress is very corrupt.
03:30They did corruption.
03:32They did this. They did that.
03:33They gave their answer.
03:35But if you are very honest.
03:39If you are honest.
03:41If you are Saraswati Harishchandra.
03:44Then why are you beating RTI?
03:48RTI's budget was reduced by 60%.
03:52If you are very honest, then why did you bring Lokpal?
03:56You shouldn't have brought him.
03:58So, what I want to say is,
04:00What they are claiming,
04:02In reality, the reality is different.
04:04And the marketing is different.
04:06But this government,
04:08In my opinion,
04:10It will be a very harsh word.
04:14But I can't say anything less than that.
04:17Which is called egoistic.
04:19Arrogant government.
04:22It has no tolerance at all.
04:25This is a government of pride.
04:28Which has no tolerance at all.
04:31And that is why,
04:33I was listening to Javed Akhtar's poetry yesterday.
04:36And what has been said in that poetry,
04:39It fits perfectly in today's environment.
04:44Someone has ordered,
04:46In this flower garden,
04:48There will be only flowers of one color.
04:50Someone has ordered,
04:51In this flower garden,
04:52There will be only flowers of one color.
04:54There will be some officers who will decide this.
04:57How will the flower garden be of tomorrow?
05:00Certainly, the flowers will be of one color.
05:03But how deep will this color be?
05:06And how light will it be?
05:08These officers will decide.
05:10How can anyone tell this to anyone?
05:13In a flower garden,
05:14The flowers are not of one color.
05:17They can never be.
05:19How can anyone tell this to anyone?
05:21When do the winds and waves listen to someone's order?
05:24When do they listen to someone's order?
05:26How can anyone tell this to anyone?
05:28When do the winds and waves listen to someone's order?
05:30The winds do not stop in the hands of the rulers,
05:33In the handcuffs,
05:34In the prisons.
05:36If these waves are stopped,
05:38Then no matter how peaceful the river is,
05:41It is restless.
05:44And the next step of this restlessness is the flood.