Rahul Gandhi’s speech which was disrupted repeatedly by Mayawati’s BSP MP’s during the trust vote debate , sounded a bit NGO ish as some observers put it. But he came across some one who cares and has his mind set upon the upliftment of India’s poor and also someone who does not practice partisan politics. Here is an excerpt of his speech below.
“It is important at this point not to speak as a Member of a political Party, but to speak as an Indian. Everybody in this House, regardless of which party he comes from speaks in the interest of the nation. We are meeting here because there is a serious problem in India and the problem is our energy security. Poverty is directly connected to energy security. Energy effects India’s growth. If we do not secure our energy supply into the future, growth will stop and we will not be able to fight poverty.
The way our nuclear industry is positioned today, it is going to do neither. It is neither going to act as an insurance policy nor is it going to act or have the potential to act as a fundamental source of energy. And, the reason it is not going to do so is because the hands of our scientists, the hands of our establishment are tied; they are tied because they do not have fuel on one hand, and on the other hand they do not have investment and technology. Senior leaders have also established that the way forward is diversification and reliance on more than one source of energy, a balanced portfolio that includes nuclear, hydrocarbon, solar and wind among others. It is not enough to identify a problem and a potential solution. The magic of what Shri Manmohan Singhji is doing is that within the problem, he has identified an opportunity that is significantly larger than the problem itself. The opportunity our Prime Minister has identified is based on a simple fact. It is based on the fact that over the next 30-40 years, two countries are going to use the largest bulk of new energy that comes on line. These countries – China and India – have the ability to define the way the world’s energy moves. Instead of looking at our energy problem as a problem, we start to look at our energy usage as an opportunity. Like a big buyer who goes to any market, we have the ability to shape the global energy industry, and energy is like no other industry in the world. Energy, as I said earlier, is used everywhere, in everything and in every aspect of economic and social life. Energy has destroyed nations and it has built nations. Instead of worrying about how the world will impact us, we start worrying about how we will impact the world.
Many years ago, this country embarked on a path which many people did not believe in. We developed an industry called, IT industry and the telecom industry. Very few people believed that the computer would have anything to do with empowering the poor and with changing the way this country worked. Yet, today all of us together see the impact of the computer. The decision here is not about three per cent energy or seven per cent energy. It is not about India’s usage of nuclear energy. If we look at the big picture here, it is about whether India can become a global power in a type of energy that is going to be very important in the future. We all know the problems caused by hydrocarbons. We know about pollution. Earlier, one of he Members asked me to point out what is the connection between energy and poverty. We know the link between us depending on hydrocarbons and prices in India today. When we think about energy, when we think about nuclear energy, we must think about the poorest in the country. Contrary to what most people believed, when we thought about IT in this country, we were thinking about the poor in this country. It is something that is hard to cross because it is counterintuitive. But one must not underestimate the connections between industry, between energy and between the poor. It is important to realize that this country is brimming with confidence and brimming with self-belief. Another point we must never forget when we take decisions as leaders in this country is that we have to believe in that, in our people and we have to have confidence in what we are capable of doing. We have to have confidence in what they are doing. What matters is that we start working together and we together try to solve the problems of this country. “
Also on a lighter note, i felt one of the best speeches was given by Laloo Prasad Yadav, who in his own unique style aptly put the opposition (Communists,NDA and Mayawati) in place. Watch his hilarious video below.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ju1OaJp1ms
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Hi,
Very nice speech by rahul. I am not a congress supporter, but felt very bad about how the BJP put our country to shame by throwing money in parliament. this is not the way to go about things.
I will consider to vote for Manmohan in 2009 as i feel he is better then advani.
advani is not a vajpayee, he has bought disrepute to the BJP
I too agree with you.Why Advani could not behave like a matured person ? Dr.Manmohan and his team were very decent through out and maintained the decorm of the Parleament house.Why others could not respect the house ?
Opposition should know they are also responsible people and should have behaved accordingly.They should start supporting things which benefits the Nation whoever proposes or promotes. Only then we can trust voting these people.Unless they change their stone-age attitudes, we Indians are fooling ourselves by voting these people by some emotion of relegion and caste.
Johnsheen
one of the best speeches by a politician in a long-long time.he should become the next “PM”.
Rahul has made a very honest and earnest plea to all youth irrespective of party affliations to come together when national interest is present…
advani is just furthering his dividing agenda when what india needs is economic prosperity
vajpayee is a statesman thats why i voted for him, advani is like a street bully…i rather want Dr. Manmohan to continue…and rahul pls gain exp and not fall for petty politics…the youth needs many like minded leaders
I was never a Rahul Gandhi supporter. In fact I never supported the Nehru clan ever. But on 22nd July Rahul Gandhi has forced me to turn around and listen to him. He was like the voice we all dreamed of to listen in the Indian Parliament. For once there was a politician who in a dignified manner kept away from petty party politics and spoke of what matters most, India! I hope Rahul keeps up this good work. The nation has started to look up at him.
I too agree with you. Your analysis is too good in near feature we require more power that to with out pollution.
1000’s of villages are there in India without power why? We don’t have that much of productivity to over come this we should require alternative.
Mr.Manmohan Sing and his team is doing good. At any cost you should bring up N-DEAL wish you all the best…
Thanks,
Mukku Narasa.
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Mr. Rahul Gandhi, My Blood is Congress…. Mr. Rajiv Gandhi… And Mrs. Indira Gandi….Who said.. Mere khoon ka ek ek katra is desh ke kaam aaega,,,, true…. and till date unke khoon ka har katra is desh ke kaam aa raha hai… aap bhi Indira jee ke khoon ka katra ho… ans aap ki maa… she’s the greatest lady I have ever known…. She’s just like mother of India… Advani Ji ” First Comes Country, then your Party People, Then your Family, Then your Relations, Then your friends, and then yoyr family and last of all you>>> but your mathemTICs is totally opposite…lEARN SOMETHING FROM vAJPAYEE jI,,, tILL DATE YOU ARE SURVIVING BECAUSE OF HIM….
I found your blog via Google while searching for speeches on pollution, thank you for posting andhi’s speech – 22nd July on the Nuclear Deal!
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