00:00 We are sitting on a powder keg.
00:03 We are sitting on a India that is primed.
00:14 We have massive level of polarization.
00:18 We have huge unemployment.
00:21 We have, as I said, the backbone of employment broken and we have massive concentration of
00:28 wealth.
00:29 We are going to have social problems.
00:31 They're coming without any doubt.
00:33 There is going to be a mass upsurge.
00:36 Now the question is can the opposition make that upsurge peaceful, effective in changing
00:47 the politics?
00:49 You could also have a situation where you have an uncontrolled upsurge, which is what
00:55 we are seeing in Sri Lanka.
00:59 India is not in a good place.
01:02 The BJP has spread kerosene all over the country.
01:06 You need one spark and we'll be in big trouble.
01:09 And so I think that's also the responsibility of the opposition, the Congress, that bring
01:14 people together, bring the communities together, bring the states together, bring the religions
01:21 together and say, "Listen, we need to cool this temperature down because if this temperature
01:25 doesn't cool down, things can go wrong."
01:30 You mentioned polarization.
01:34 You must have noticed that the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, publicly at a press
01:42 conference with the Indian External Affairs Minister and Defense Minister present, spoke
01:49 about human rights violations in India.
01:55 That I think coming from the government in the United States, a government which is otherwise
02:03 quite friendly towards India, is certainly something which raised alarms.
02:10 What is the Congress doing about these alleged human rights violations?
02:17 I mean, first of all, I mean, I'm glad the United States has woken up to this idea.
02:24 We've been, you know, we don't need the United States to tell us that there's polarization
02:28 in India.
02:29 In fact, it's taken them quite a long time to sense it.
02:35 We're of course fighting the polarization.
02:38 We're of course holding a position that brings people together and we're doing that.
02:44 The Congress is doing that, the opposition is doing that.
02:48 But I think what the gentleman reflects is that a destabilized India, a India which spirals
02:58 out of control, is a problem for the globe.
03:02 It's not just a problem for us.
03:05 India, democracy in India is a global public good.
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