"There was so much love between us, so much respect and goodwill," Motilal Vora reminisced about opposition leaders, his political journey and left the House in splits during his last speech in Parliament. The veteran Congress leader passed away at 93 this week.
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00:00Give such a long answer that the Madhuri Parliament will not get a place to ask the whole question.
00:12While floating, while floating, when I became a minister in 1986,
00:18on which position did you sit today, on which position did Dr. Shankar Dayalji sit,
00:27and I had the Health and Civil Affairs Minister,
00:33most of the questions were about the Health Department,
00:39and the Civil Affairs Minister used to say,
00:42I am new, why did the sea come from the pond?
00:46Bhopal was a pond, here came the sea.
00:50I used to ask Gulam Naveenji, what should I do?
00:54I am not able to understand anything.
00:56I decided that I will study a lot and give such a long answer that the Madhuri Parliament will not get a place to ask the whole question.
01:16Dr. Shankar Dayalji said, make it short.
01:20I said, sir, the question I have asked, I will have to give a long answer.
01:25I raised the question to the Madhuri Parliament,
01:29that Shri Mati Indira Gandhi has kept a lot of money in her farm house in Mehrauli.
01:40We kept making noise.
01:43The noise continued.
01:45In the morning, I reached near the Madhuri Newalkarji at 7 in the morning,
01:51and I said, Mr. Newalkarji, let me raise this question today.
01:58The Madhuri Parliament said, leave it.
02:01I said, no sir, leave it.
02:03I want to bring the facts before you.
02:07I reached the Madhuri Parliament,
02:12I left all the books,
02:14I was not able to find anything, what should be the answer to this?
02:19Searching and searching, Surya magazine was published at that time.
02:25And there was a chapter in Surya magazine,
02:29C.I.A.S. Campus Correction in India.
02:34I had taken so many books.
02:38I kept them on my table here.
02:41Newalkarji, as you said, finish quickly.
02:46So, Mr. Newalkarji, in 5 minutes, say what you have to say.
02:53I said, sir, 5 minutes.
02:56I will finish in 3 minutes.
02:59I said, the accusation they have put on Indira Gandhi,
03:04that is untrue.
03:07C.I.A.S. Campus Correction in India.
03:11How much money from America, I will not take anyone's name.
03:15I said, I will not take anyone's name.
03:19Lakhs of dollars come to you,
03:22and you are talking about digging into Indira Gandhi's memory.
03:29Mandi Atal Bihari Vajpayee ji,
03:32Vibhakshi Desai, very thin,
03:36he called me and said,
03:39Motilal used to say,
03:42Motilal, I want to meet you.
03:44I said, Panditji, you can come anytime.
03:48I said, you can come at 8 in the morning.
03:53He said, I am an MP.
03:55I am a leader of Vibhakshi.
03:58No one listens to me.
04:01I go to people and say,
04:04where did my MP led money go?
04:07No one tells me.
04:09We also had Chief Ministers, everyone did.
04:12No one fulfilled even a single thing in my area.
04:17I said, Panditji, you come at 8 in the morning,
04:21and I will sit with you and discuss.
04:24He said, do one thing for me.
04:28There was a 26 km long road.
04:34I told Kalyan Singh ji, Narendra Tiwari ji, everyone.
04:40No one said anything.
04:42I said, Panditji,
04:46next Saturday you will not come to Parliament.
04:50We will go together.
04:52He narrated an incident.
04:54He said, Mani Sabapati Maudai,
04:56the road from here to here,
04:59there are so many holes in the road,
05:02that there is no way out.
05:04He said a small thing.
05:07There was a young man.
05:09The young man got married.
05:11Both were going in a scooter.
05:14The young man was beautiful.
05:17His wife was also beautiful.
05:19Both looked at each other.
05:21When Bajpayee ji said that the hole is about to come,
05:26he saw that his wife had fallen down.
05:30Such a high hole.
05:32He said, I am taking you so that you can start the work.
05:39Pandit Sabapati Maudai,
05:41I will tell you one more thing.
05:43You will be surprised to hear that
05:45the day Bajpayee ji said,
05:47I said, in one week,
05:49mud, mud, gold,
05:52and there,
05:54I did the earthquake.
05:56He said,
05:58the people of Bharatiya Janata,
06:01the people of Congress came,
06:03they said,
06:04that the President should remain in power.
06:07Bajpayee ji said,
06:09no, listen,
06:11what Bajpayee ji said,
06:13that I have known Moti Lal Gora for 30 years.
06:17This is Moti Lal Gora,
06:19who came here on my request
06:21and did the earthquake.
06:23So he said,
06:25a higher secondary school,
06:27a primary health center should be sanctioned.
06:30I said, Panditji,
06:32this is a very small thing.
06:34It will be done.
06:35What I mean to say is that
06:37there were such values,
06:41so much love for each other.
06:44I never understood
06:46that I live in such big positions.
06:49The positions are there,
06:50the positions come and go.
06:52And after the positions come and go,
06:55a person should always be humble.
06:59I would like to say one more thing.
07:02Arun Jaitley ji,
07:11he was a leader of the opposition,
07:16a leader of the Sadhan.
07:18When he was a leader of the Sadhan,
07:22he said to me,
07:24without permission,
07:26in his room,
07:28I have never gone to any minister's room
07:31without permission.
07:34You will be surprised to hear this.
07:39For the sake of Jaitley ji,
07:41the leader of the BJP
07:43and the minister were sitting.
07:45Leaving them,
07:47he took them from his chair
07:49and said,
07:50what is the matter?
07:51I said,
07:52without permission,
07:53I have come to your room today.
07:55I have never come.
07:57He said,
07:58tell me.
07:59I told him my matter.
08:01It was a small matter.
08:02You don't worry.
08:03What he meant to say was
08:05that among all of us,
08:07there is so much love, respect,
08:09so much goodwill towards each other
08:12that when Amit Shah ji was sitting there,
08:14he saw me.
08:16When I went to Jaitley ji's room,
08:19Amit Shah ji was sitting there
08:21and there were 7-8 people.
08:23After 7-8 people,
08:25he left me.
08:27He said his matter.
08:28The matter was concluded.
08:30I have to say this in my eyes.
08:32I have got a lot in life.
08:35I got a lot.
08:37I wanted to do a lot of work.
08:39I still want to do it.
08:42But,
08:44I always remember one thing.
08:47Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
08:52There was a poem by Robert Frost on the desk.
08:59You might have heard it.
09:02It was a poem by Robert Frost.
09:05Whose woods these are I think I know.
09:10His house is in the village though.
09:14He will not see me stopping here
09:18to watch his woods fill up with snow.
09:22My little house must think it is square
09:27to stop without a foremost near
09:30between the woods and the frozen lake.
09:33The darkest evening of the year.
09:41If there is some mistake,
09:44the only other wood sounds the sweet
09:47of easy wind and dowry feet.
09:51The woods are lovely,
09:54dark and deep.
09:56But, I have to keep my promises.
10:01No, no, but I have promises to keep
10:04and miles to go before I sleep
10:07and miles to go before I sleep.
10:09Abhi bhi mile chalna hai.