Change The System With Love And Non-Violence, Rahul Gandhi To Youth In Prayagraj
Prayagraj, August 8: Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi today exhorted the youth and the students of the country to change the system with love and non-violence, as thousands of students gathered here to listen to him.
Interacting with thousands of students and youth who had converged here at the ‘Chhatron ki Goonj’ programme, he said, the existing system in the country has destroyed employment avenues, captured universities and destroyed the future of the youth.
Gandhi started his interaction with students recalling his family roots in the city of Allahabad.
Gandhi summed it up in three words; “Data, Dard and Daulat”, saying that while the data belongs to the youth, they are subjected to unparalleled pain and the wealth is controlled by others. “Data is yours. Dard (pain) is yours and wealth is theirs”, he remarked, pointing to a slide showing Adani, Modi-Shah and Mohan Bhagwat.
Congratulating the youth and the students for showing light in the darkness, he told them, “When everything around looked dark, you showed the light and you did what your parents couldn’t do… by overcoming the fear and changing the country”. Above all, he added, “you did all this, you raised your voice with love and not hatred”. “You are the torchbearers in the darkness. You have awakened the youth and students of the country”, he told the enthusiastic audience of young Indians, adding, “we will never work with hatred and violence as India’s culture believes in love, harmony, civility and non-violence”.
Rahul Gandhi said, the existing system in India does not offer any hope to the youth. He said, all job avenues like the government, public sector undertaking, manufacturing, and corporate jobs had vanished. Manufacturing, he said, was destroyed with demonetisation and flawed implementation of GST.
The senior Congress leader identified three parts of the system, represented by Adani, Modi-Shah and the RSS. He said, during the last ten years, Adani’s wealth had multiplied thirty times and he was financing the entire system. He said, the BJP’s bank balance during the last ten years had risen from Rs 150 crores to Rs 10,000 crores. He said, Modi diverts people’s attention and runs his own political system. He said, the RSS was using the system to control the thought and idea, pointing out RSS ‘pracharaks’ have been infiltrated into the entire system. He said, the Allahabad University, which was once considered to be one of the best universities in the country, has an RSS pracharak as the Vice Chancellor. Similarly, he added, the pracharaks were there in the bureaucracy, paramilitary forces, judiciary, media, universities, colleges and everywhere to control people’s thought.
In his parting message he told the youth, “You are India’s spirit, you are India’s future, you are the most beautiful youth in the world, you cannot allow yourself to hate anyone and cannot allow yourself to be violent, because you are the loving youth who will open ‘mohabbat ki dukan’ everywhere”. He told the youth that they are the strength of India, they are the power of India and they are the pride of India. “You possess intelligence, imagination and great capability and if this country moves ahead, it will be because of you”.
Rahul Gandhi noted that India has the biggest youth population in the world as there are 40 crore youth living in this country. He said, countries like China, America and Russia were nothing in front of the potential of the youth of India.
Gandhi also invited on stage several students from different states, who narrated their bitter experiences with the examination and recruitment system in states like Uttar Pradesh and Bihar. Some students also revealed how they were hounded and harassed by the Bihar government after they had given a call for the bandh against the police brutalities on students at Jantar Mantar in Delhi on July 20.
