00:00In 2014, we witnessed a completely new election, something we've never seen before.
00:06Millions and millions and millions of dollars injected into the political system.
00:13Completely new type of campaign, a drama like we had never seen before.
00:20Electoral system that was used to close fights, coalitions suddenly is upturned.
00:27And I would be lying if I said that the opposition was in shock.
00:33We were in shock, not for a year, not for two, we were in shock for a decade.
00:38And when a politician is faced with something like this, and you must have been faced with it,
00:44you begin to ask questions about yourself.
00:48You begin to ask questions about your party, you begin to ask questions about your ideology,
00:54you begin to ask questions about what you are doing.
00:58And so there was this crisis in Indian politics for a decade.
01:03And then suddenly, we discovered what was happening.
01:08First we sensed it, and then slowly we started to discover it.
01:12And what we discovered, and we have proven without any doubt,
01:19is that democracy was destroyed in India in 2014.
01:24I'll give you a small example.
01:26140 million people, please listen to this number carefully.
01:32140 million people who voted in the 2024 Lok Savai election
01:40were declared as either non-existent voters or non-voters a few months ago.
01:48The question arises,
01:52if 120 million voters who supposedly voted in the 2024 election,
01:58approximately 13% of Indian voters,
02:04if the election commission has declared 140 million voters illegal, non-voters,
02:13then how is that election possibly legitimate?
02:17We have an example in Maharashtra.
02:19We have a national election.
02:23Our alliance fights, wins the national election.
02:26Three months later,
02:28we are decimated.
02:31We cease to exist as a political formation.
02:35We cease to exist as a political formation.
02:40We start looking into the details.
02:42What do we find?
02:44We find that we get the exact same votes
02:50in both the elections.
02:537 million new voters are magically added in three months.
02:59And every single one of those 7 million voters votes for the BJP and they win the election.
03:04I'll give you an example in state after state after state after state.
03:07That Indian democracy,
03:09size,
03:11because of its complexity,
03:14is a global public good.
03:17I believe it is critical for India,
03:19but I also believe
03:22that being the largest democracy in the world,
03:26more than 1.5 billion people,
03:29this is a global asset,
03:32it is a global public good,
03:34and it is important
03:34for the democratic movement on the planet
03:38that India remains a democracy.
03:41And what we have found
03:44and proven
03:48is that India is actually no longer a democracy.
03:53I said that
03:56the structure has collapsed.
03:58What did I mean?
04:00I mean that
04:02what worked
04:03for us
04:04and for many other people
04:07and countries on the planet,
04:09the economic model that
04:10worked for us
04:12has failed.
04:14It no longer works
04:16and it will never work.
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