"Modi Should, For Once..." I On Amethi Decision & "Modi's Hindu-Muslim Politics" - Digvijay Singh

how what did you feel when you heard those words amused [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and this absolutely stunning place isur in rogar we're here on the campaign trail with digvijay Singh and we're going to take a walk with him through these Villages and these fields dig G uh good to see you here outside of Delhi uh this is a really really stunning place people like us don't get an opportunity to see this kind of place I just want to show you before I start talking to Mr dig sing where we are if the camera turns around you will see uh it's very sparsely populated there are a few huts and everything else is just Open Fields And in the distance you can see a few congress party Flags ragard has been a kind of Island for the Congress uh some would say in a sea of saffron but what's going to happen in the Loa elections how are you doing well working hard you've said it's your last election it's not like you to say anything is last year because I will be 82 in the next election so 82 is the new 60 no no no no the time comes now and has to decide is that a lot of pressure on you to win does it feel like this is not a routine election well every no election is routine election every election is a special election is me challenge you've come to an area after 33 years yes for those who don't know sing took a pledge that he was not going to do electoral politics for 10 years after a defeat in madhia Pradesh uh in the state elections what is the biggest challenge here let's just stand for a moment and you tell us there are two [Music] things compr is their right but why are they not being given the right local issues rajar has been uh my constituency from 1984 when I was a chief minister when I was a minister in AR's cabinet he had put me as a InCharge Minister for R now I may go back has been a sort of a uh nursery for the Jung RSS and the Jung has won quite often from here as well yes and in fact Hindu mahasabha J and people from coming from outside Dr B Kumar Pandit won from this constituency twice he never came to his consitency he only came to file his nomination went back then Mr jagat Yoshi from Karnataka he W twice from here so people just did not vote congress party right 1984 I was the first time Congress Member of Parliament elected although there was a huge Congress wave that time after the assassination of IND Gandhi so but I won that election but 89 election I lost but I won back in 91 but how do you deal with the challenge of coming back to a place that is your home base but you're coming back after more than three decades isn't it difficult let me tell you one thing I was never disconnected with the constituency because as a chief minister I was in close contact with the people of rajar parliament seat I was in touch with the local people and I always because being a member of parliament then becom chief minister so I had special sort of a feeling for the people of Raj and they had a free access to the CM residents and uh I can't remember how many people I would have helped I must have helped uh whether education or health or whatever so there was a natural connect but yet this is a challenging election for you it's a it's it's a tough fight every election is a challenge permanent retirement how what did you feel when you heard those words amused because because the kind of language that he used and of course in 15 minutes speech took my name 17 times the BJP likes you a lot absolutely fa they love me no more seriously they see you as one of the more controversial Congress leaders they accuse you of if they are accused of hinda they accuse you of appeasement politics when it comes to Muslims rubish how absolute rubbish how do you deal with that in an environment like this absolute rubbish I don't appe any particular religion religious group or any Community I strongly believe that as for the Indian constitution every person has a right to follow the religion of his choice and there should be no I would say interference in whatever way the that that we interfere in the practice of their religious rights but can I ask you something you've just come from a you told me an incredible story and we're going to show you pictures our audios pictures of the morti it's spectacularly beautiful or you have always been a religious person yes that the Congress seeded the space to the BJP number number three none of the Shankar they were invited but they refused to go because they felt they they commented that it is against the established practice of pran pratista after the completion of the temple the temple is not yet complete and they did Thea for political Gams do you find the Mand to be a big political issue here no no longer they trying to Dr it serious Congress politics rules of the game have changed see the point is the congress party has not deviated from its established path of equal rights to all religious that is the essence ofan that is the essence of the speech you have allies like UD Stalin who's insulting Satan listen to me they probably don't know I'm sorry to sort of we're looking at beautiful Sun's about to set I want you to just get a moment of where we standing otherwise it would be a waste to have come all this way here but go on probably they don't know the Salat that is why they come out with this this statement because Manus is something different it is not a part of our inherent San if you see if you read bhag Gita has said that it is not by birth you are you go into a work of your uh I would say profession who anyone who is articulate or is who who professional becomes a Brahman one who's a warrior becomes a Chri one who's doing business or farming become a b and those who do lineal jobs it's not by birth I mean that is that is a whole debate on cast which takes me to something that is being much discussed in this election redistribution what a what a joke probably he has not read our Congress Manifesto but he has not even read his BJP Manifesto also because because he doesn't want to why do you say that because his agenda is quite different which is his agenda is not economic what it's not political but only Rel political religious he wants he is using religion as a political weapon which is not allowed under the present people's representation act also it is against the model code of conduct of the election commission so how does a congress counter that well we only believe that the election issues are in very high rate of inflation inflation very high rate of unemployment using the the the bodies like enforcement directorate it CBI but political Gams people are being hounded people are being threatened punished and put into jail without any evidence at all a big decision that the party had to take and has now been taken was on aan rber the Congress president was on record to say that he wished that both Priyanka and Rahul would contest were you disappointed well I think it was a conscious decision taken by the party but you've known the family all your life were you disappointed do you think it's a missed opportunity moing but are you disappointed on the ATI decision okay explain it how does it make sense see it's the choice of the the party would you have the same would you have advised the same would you have advised them to do this I'm not in the central Elation committee now you're being now just being politically correct would you have advised them to do this well if I had been in central election committee I would have convey my thoughts whatever those thoughts wouldn't have been this decision okay before we get back to politics a little bit of where we are standing your son told us there's standing in that corner to in a way your your wild young years were spent here uh now this is a family channel but you can't tell us what some of those wild ears looked like what did you you know you no no that a Time hunting was allowed yes and there was a small River huh and uh somewhere there in the distance yes yes and we used to come and stay for two to 3 days in in our one of the farmers house and uh it was wonderful in fact what do you remember about it oh what's the abiding memory abiding memory is to get up in in cold winter at 4:30 in the morning and walk and go for the shikar and this is a hunt of a different kind how stunned were you by the madh Pradesh Assembly election results was it a big shocker absolutely did you all get overconfident were you and Kam fighting again no no no no question how are you getting along these days very well we've been friends for last time 40 more than 40 years since 1977 so there is no question of any kind of difference opinion between me and Kam but what went wrong you had some time to think about it what went wrong see uh I put it like this in ballot paper would say you know the the the the postal ballot we LED in 199 seats after 230 199 postal ballot postal ballot included government officials then people over the age of 80 then people in government Central Services Army Etc and those who were physically challenged across the board we LED in 199 seats out of 230 and we were expecting about 135 to 146 and uh when we got the results Shaka he got only 66 seats the difference in the vote percentage in madra Pradesh about last 3 four assembly elections has been 0.5 to 2% this time 8% so what does that tell you well I've been saying this that they are manipulating the UN now when you say this you immediately walk into controversy because there's no controversy let me say why because even those who don't who are not supporters of this government like let's say former CC sesi he's not seen as a Modi fan he says the EVMS cannot be manipulated and EV [Applause] manipulate he has changed his opinion now please go back and talk to him because BJP has no stakes in the well they had they had no Stakes so therefore they do it very sorry very cleverly they manipulate major in a major in about more than 270 seats in the parliament they did in 2019 and 2014 and you see my questions are simple to the information question number one is it Standalone machine is it a the tip used is it a onetime programmable chip or a multiple programmable chip number two where are you sourcing this chip from and what is the software you see since software is coming the computer listens to the command of only software not of the person who's operating it accepted agreed I'm listening you go on yeah okay now as a stands today since vpad came in the loading of the candidates name and the symbol is done through SL symbol loading unit and that is connected to the central server of the election commission when the names of the candidates and the symbols are loaded on the vvad unit now vvad unit is connected to the SLV and SLU is connected to the central Election Commission Central server and through that it is loaded in the v okay now the very fact that it is connected to the internet which has been a i consistent stand of the election commission that it is never connected to the internet it is connected when the randomization of the machines takes place also the central election committee decides which machine will go to which assembly segment which the second randomization decides which machine will go to which polling booth now all that something uh which the election commission has stonewalling our queries why the Supreme Court didn't accept this argument Supreme Court uh has not has has not agreed to this but the very fact that they have asked the symol loading unit to be to be kept in the strong room for the next 45 days yeah after the Ping that itself is something which is can be very useful if someone challenges you one of the things the BJP says is that you talk about the machines when you lose but never when you win no no not really for example I have always been opposing since 2003 because you know it is my right when I press a button to know that it has been correctly recorded and it be correctly counted initially it was just a press the button and it went to the to the control unit there is no Intermediate Unit so it was simply press the button and goes to the control unit that could be challenged again for for it can benefit it but now the ballot unit which does not have a chip is not connected to the control unit directly it is connected to the v p but so vvad is the is the machine unit which is sending message to the control unit not the B okay so now you've made this argument but you understand that you will be let's just walk last couple of minutes you will be accused of being a veteran politician who is questioning the Democratic process you will be called irresponsible worse you could be called a poor sport that you're trying to anticipate a defeat and you're explaining it through this well whether I win or lose doesn't make a difference but what is more important is a right of every voter to know where his vote has gone and what we had requested the election commission and the Supreme Court was the after we see the the we press the button we see a 7 second image of the symbol which we have voted for now that then goes to the printer and goes to the unit that VV slip Falls in a box why can't we get this slip in our hand so that we see it whether it's been right I understand but the Supreme Court has ruled on this so this is where you are now right fine okay so now as we end you've often been controvery child do you regret any political decision of yours do you think you could have done something in your life differently do you regret comments that you made that youa tell me one controversial statement of M tell after 26 11 the comments that you made on H Kare did I say you tell me I said H Kare has been killed and it is unfortunate but Aon Kare was the man who had sort of as a police officer looked at the Mal blast but that has nothing to do with aab and Pakistan being behind 26 I never accused I never use RSS or the BJP or whatever in the 2611 Bombay attack I never did that but yet at the same time it was a coincidence that him Kare was killed in that number one I have never given any statement which I feel was inconsistent but I've been wrongly I would say quoted I've been wrongly sort of blamed for a statement which I never made okay now as we end because we've spoken about a lot of serious things um if you lose what happens will I lose will you still laugh about it all of course yes I I you know I see your son standing here and I'm going to take this opportunity to ask him to tell us something about your father that nobody knows um well I guess um people know a lot about any politician these days with how transparent things are but about one misconception uh which people may have with the kind of propaganda the BJP spreads is How Deeply religious and spiritual he is there's not a single day when he won't do his yoga when he won't do his Puja and I think his biggest strength is his belief in sanatan DH um and his belief in um rui mahaj who and asapi so you know I think that's one thing which um is biggest strength and uh whatever today you know he has achieved or our family has achieved has all been the blessings of our Kuli and K last word to you uh any message special message from the Prime Minister from your home T yes pleas please for God's sake speak truth for once D sing there taking on the Prime Minister directly I just still can't resist as he walks walks away Amit sha would want to walk away into the sunset the sunset is right there you don't quite want to walk away into the sunset just yet do you well sunset is beautiful the sun is indeed setting there and from rogar uh this beautiful Village of sompur on the campaign trail with dig Singh and his son Ajay this is barad reporting namaskar and hello everyone welcome to a ride through the heart and the Soul of India but it's also a time for travel and meeting people and getting to know your own country better so welcome to the dhas of democracy where every bite tells a story where every conversation will spice up your day experience the Masala the flavor the swad of this election with us as we take a lovely a unique road trip from the south to the north of India traveling thousands of kilometers to bring you the flavor of this election [Music]

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Length: 26min 16sec (1576 seconds)

Published: Mon May 06 2024