Editorial With Sujit Nair | "Will Your Hard-Earned Money Be Given To Infiltrators?"

[00:00:02] Hello and welcome to HW Editorial with me Sujit Nair. Here you can listen to my views, my analysis. Follow this podcast to stay updated. At HW News, we have been delivering news that matters to you.

[00:00:17] Our goal is to present you with information that stimulates conversations around the topic of larger public importance that often gets lost in prime-time shows. We will take a goal and destroy everyone. And when they first said that the first right to country's wealth is of Muslims,

[00:00:56] this means who will they distribute this wealth to? Those who have more children will be distributed. They will distribute it to the people. Will your hard-earned money be given to the people? You are being accused of the manifesto of Congress. Namaskar and welcome to another episode of Editorial.

[00:01:30] Will you give your hard-earned money to infiltrators? That's what the Prime Minister wants to know. And one presumes when he says infiltrator, he means Muslims. Let's talk about it. Let's get right to the show. Now, the Prime Minister in the last couple of days has changed his gears.

[00:01:58] So he's been talking a lot of things. I'm not going to dwell much into that. Why I wouldn't dwell much into that is because almost every party exaggerates what the others say. Every party exaggerates. Some party sticks to polarization.

[00:02:15] Bharat E Janata Party is known to stick to polarization. So they are sticking to polarization. They are doing what they do best. That is polarized. So they are continuing that.

[00:02:26] That said, I want to dwell on one speech of the Prime Minister which he was quoting Dr. Manmohan Singh. I want to dwell on that one speech and talk about it.

[00:02:39] But before I go to that one speech, let me tell you a few things which the Prime Minister said. On 23rd April in Rajasthan, that is today he said that even listening to Anuman Chalisa becomes a crime under Congress rule.

[00:02:52] Rajasthan has been a sufferer. For the first time on Ram Navami this time, Shobha Yatra procession was taken out in Rajasthan. This is what a Prime Minister goes and offers the people. Ram Navami Day, Shobha Yatra has been taken out.

[00:03:08] But fair enough, like I said that is his prerogative and he can do that. On 22nd in Aligarh, he went out and said that Congress Shesada which I presume is Raul Gandhi. Good. From Pappu to Shesada. I think that is a promotion.

[00:03:22] So the Congress Shesada says if his government comes they will investigate who earns much and how much property they have. Not only this, he further says that the government will take over the property and redistribute it. This is what their election manifesto says.

[00:03:40] Now honestly I was trying to kind of see where this is. I have not seen this in the election manifesto. Maybe I missed it but I have not seen this particular statement in election manifesto.

[00:03:50] What has been told is that you see 1% of people who almost owns almost 40% of the wealth of this country, what was talked about is redistribution of that particular wealth is what I understand.

[00:04:02] I have not seen this in the manifesto but the Prime Minister says the manifesto reads that. Congress manifesto says that. He went also on to say that just think our mothers and daughters have gold. This is Tridhan women's property. It is considered sacred even the law protects it.

[00:04:20] But now they are eyeing a change in law and snatching the property of our mothers and sisters. He also speaks about something I guess in the manifesto or whatever,

[00:04:31] where Congress is going to take gold from mothers and sisters of this country and I don't know what they are going to do. Again like I said I have not read this but then it's okay. Like I said a lot of parties exaggerate a lot of things.

[00:04:46] So nothing new but the Prime Minister doing it yes that sounds a little strange. But yeah we are kind of used to it now. So it's okay.

[00:04:56] That is the level of politics in our country so it's okay and that is the level of politics that almost every level of this country plays. So that is okay. I guess we got to get used to it isn't it?

[00:05:09] Okay my editorial is not about all of this. My editorial is about a statement which he made on the 21st of April. Because I want to dwell into this on the statement.

[00:05:20] I want to get I want to deep dive onto this statement and I want to also understand what exactly did Dr. Manmohan Singh say. So let's first start with Mr. Modi's statement.

[00:05:33] Mr. Modi says that when they that is Congress were in power earlier on they said that Muslims have the first right to country's resources. So who will they redistribute resources to? Those who have more children? Those who are infiltrators?

[00:05:49] Will your hard earned money be given to infiltrators? Will you accept that? The Congress manifesto says that they will stock the gold owned by our mothers and sisters and they will redistribute the wealth. Which is what I read earlier on which he said in Aligarh also.

[00:06:07] Now he says that this entire debate starts from a speech that Manmohan Singh had made in 2006.

[00:06:14] In 2006, Manmohan Singh had said that you know we will have to devise an innovative plan to ensure that minorities, particularly the Muslim minorities are empowered to share equitably in the fruits of development.

[00:06:32] They must have the first claim on resources not right over resources. Claim on resources, the center has a myriad other responsibility whose demands will have to be fitted within the overall resource availability.

[00:06:51] So, Mr. Dr. Manmohan Singh said that the first claim of resources should be for Muslims, minorities especially Muslims. This was construed to be the first right on our resources should go to Muslims. This is how it was interpreted.

[00:07:16] This is what Dr. Manmohan Singh said. Now, what is the difference you may ask? Let us dwell into this particular statement. Now let me try and explain what Dr. Manmohan Singh was trying to say. You see Manmohan Singh is an economist.

[00:07:37] You know what is an economist's job? An economist's job or economics basically is distributing scarce resources, little resources amongst huge amount of needy people. Scarce resources, unlimited needs. Distributing the scarce resources amongst unlimited needs is what economics is all about.

[00:08:02] So, all his life, all his life Dr. Manmohan Singh has been thinking as to how ideally the best possible way to distribute little resource amongst lot of people.

[00:08:16] Now let us talk about his Muslim comment. You see what he said is he said the first claim of resources should be given to the minorities especially the Muslims. Now let us understand Muslims are one community in India whose growth chart has been always stunted.

[00:08:43] Muslims growth, both economic and social growth in India has always been stunted. They have not grown the way other communities in India has grown. This is a fact. Mind you, Dr. Manmohan Singh made this statement in 2006.

[00:09:03] In 2006 according to the Sanchar Committee report, 31% of Muslims lived below the poverty line and 25% Muslim children have either never attended school or dropped out of school.

[00:09:21] So this was the status of Muslims. Now again coming back to the statement what Manmohan Singh was trying to say that if I have 10 rotis and there are 15 people I have to feed,

[00:09:36] I would first give the right to claim that resource that is roti to the most hungry person amongst that 15 people.

[00:09:46] A person who has not been fed for the longest time. That is what he said. It is not that he is going to give more roti to that person.

[00:09:58] It is not that he is going to, that person has the maximum right over all these 10 rotis. What he said is I will divide. But first I will give the hungriest person that roti. Then I will distribute it to everybody equally, equally.

[00:10:18] This is what he meant. This is what his statement meant. And this is what any economist or right minded person in this world will think and say and probably do.

[00:10:38] I do not see any infiltrators here. I do not see snatching away anybody's rights to give it to anybody else. I do not see all of that. I do not see anybody's gold or wealth or taken away from them to be distributed to somebody else.

[00:10:56] I do not see any of those and those can't even be true. It won't even happen. It can't happen, can it? So the reason I wanted to get to your notice is that listen, it was not an error what Manmohan Singh said.

[00:11:13] It was not even wrong what Manmohan Singh said. Possibly most of my viewers, if you are sitting in Manmohan Singh's chair and if this is the way you would view wealth as an economist, as an educated,

[00:11:26] phenomenally educated economist and possibly one of the best in the world, this is how you would see it too. That is all I wanted to communicate through this short editorial. I hope I have done my job.

[00:11:42] Till I see you next time, that is tomorrow at 10, actually hang on. Do join us or do watch my live which I had spoken to Sanjay Jha. I have done a live with Sanjay Jha at 9 o'clock. That's an hour from before this editorial is released.

[00:12:03] I have done a live with Sanjay Jha. It's a fantastic topic. I actually asked him, an old congress hand. I have actually asked him as to what's Congress, appeasing Muslims all this while? Is it real?

[00:12:14] So yeah, here what he had to say is very interesting. See you tomorrow at 10 p.m. for my editorial and at 9 p.m. for my life. Namaskar. I am breaking news in just 50 words. Download now for a smarter, faster news experience.