Full Text Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s speech at AICC Session Jaipur

Read Full Text Speech  of Vice President Rahul Gandhi’s speech at AICC  Session Jaipur 

Read the full text of Rahul Gandhi his first political speech as the party's vice-president at the Chintan Shivir in Jaipur

Transcript of Shri Rahul Gandhi’s speech at AICC Session, Jaipur

Congress President Sonia Gandhi ji, Pradhan Mantri Dr Manmohan Singh ji, Members of the

Congress Working Committee, PCC presidents and Chief Ministers of States and Rajasthan,

AICC Members, Delegates of the Chintan Shivir, Friends, I would like to welcome all of you here

and thankyou very much for all the support you have shown to me. 

There are a lot of our workers who are not here today. I would also like to thank them for the

work they do and for the blood and sweat they give to this party. 

Before I begin, I would like to state that this is a huge honour for me. Over the last 8 years, this

party has taught me a tremendous amount. I have learnt from the senior leaders and the

youngsters of this party and I want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart for all the help

and direction you have given me.

There are people in South India who would like me to speak in English and there are people in

North India and as is the tradition, I will speak in English and then I will speak in Hindi. 

In 1947 India was librated not by arms but by unleashing the voice of our people, other

countries fought violently, other countries fought with weapons, other countries fought with

death, India fought with non- Violence and with voice. 

Everybody   told us that it can be done; everybody told us that if you want to get rid of British

you have to use violence and the Congress party said no we are not going to use Violence we

are not going to use Violence and we defeated the biggest empire of its time and we send them

home. This was energy behind of freedom movement voices million and millions of our voices. 

Gandhi ji success us led by Jawahar Lal Nehru feed the voice of every Indian by ensuring the

democracy became the better of our constitution.  Relentlessly championing the voice of every

Indian will always be the essence of the congress party and not a Indian one caste or one

religion I would like to repeated every single Indian is going to be supported.

No matter who he is, if he is Indian we work for him. Let’s look at the last 60 years of India’s

successes. They have all come when we gave up the people voice. The Green revolution, to

restore the voice of the farmer, Bank Nationalisation to restore the voice of the poor and the

market for credit. The IT and Telecom revolutions literaly gave the people voice, millions of

people’s voice and if you have a cellphone in your pocket today it is result of that revolution. 

And it’s an honour that Manmohan Singh ji is sitting here because he speare headed another

revolution in 1991, he unleash the voice of thousands in the field of entreprenuership and

change the country forever. The UPA Government is followed Gandhiji’s Model. It is created the

platforms for those denied their voice in the political system, for the first time in our history our

people is being gureenteed their basic rights, social and economic heads. The food bill will

ensure that true mother sees her child go hungry at night, the RTI allows every single Indian to

personally take on the battle against corruption. MANREGA is given millions of Indians pride in

their work, Right to Education enables every child to espire to greatness. All of these radical 

innovations were possible only because of the growth provided by the congress party and the

UPA. But there are many challanges ahead. The voices of the billion Indians are today that they

want to greater say in government, in politics and in administration.

This can’t be decided by hand full of people behind closed doors who are not fully accountable

to them. They are telling us that India’s governmental system is stuck in the past it is become a

system that robs people of their voice, a system that dis-empowers instead of empowering.  But

why we are in this situation, why is it I ask you, that our ministries do the work of Panchayats.

Why is it the Supreme Court handle the load of lok houses of justice? Why is it the CMs need to

appoint a teacher? Why a VCs chosen by people who far removed from their education

systems? No matter what state you look at, No matter which political party you look at why do a

handful of people control the entire political space?  

Power is grossly centralized in our country we only empower people at the top of a system. We

don’t believe in empowering people all the way to bottom. Every single day I meet people who

has tremendous understanding deep insight and no voice and all of us meet them, they are very

where. But almost always they are kept outside ours systems, no one can their voice, no matter

how much they try to speak no one listens. And then I meet people holding high positions with

tremendous voice but no understanding for the issues at hand. Why this happens is because we

don’t respect knowledge.

And it does not matter how much wisdom you have.. you mean nothing.. This is the tragedy of

India.. Why is our youth angry.. why are they out on the street.. They are angry because they

are alienated… They are excluded from the political class. They watch from the sidelines.. as

the powerful drive around in their Lal Battis…

Why are the women suffering.. because theirvoice is being trampled upon by people who have arbitrary powers over their lives. Why are thepoor confined to powerlessness and poverty.. because decision the decision over their lives..and the services they need… are decided by people far away, answerable to them only intheory.. until we start to respect and empower people for knowledge and understand, we cantchange anything in this country… All our public systems, administration.. justice… education..political systems.. all of them… are designed to keep people with knowledge out.. They are allclosed systems.. They are designed to promote mediocrity… and mediocrity dominates..mediocrity dominates discussion while the voice of insight and thought are crushed by loudnessof those who have neither the understanding nor compassion.. success in these systems does

not come through building… it comes by excluding.. it comes not by pushing people forward…

but by holding people back…

To maintain the status quo. We do not praise our collegues or look at their strength and all of us

every single of one us does it. We won’t praise other people. We ask them bahiya what is your

weakness. We only look out the way to neutralize them and every single day all of us a face

with the hypocrisy of the system. We all see it सबको िदखता  है and then we pretend it is not

there. People who are corrupt stand up and talk about eradicating corruption…  and then people

who disrespect women everyday over day of their life…  talk about women rights. Until we start

to respect the empowered people for their knowledge , for their understanding we are never

going to change this country . We need the Aam Admi to participate in our politics . Even when

as I speak their future is decided in the disclosed room . There is an young and impatient India

and it is demanding the voice in the nation future. Let me tell you they are not going to watch

silently .Our priorities are clear . The time has come to question the centralized on responsive

and on accountable system, decision making and governance, administration and politics . The

answer not to people say we need to run the system better.. The answer is not in running this

system better.

We have to relook at things in system and we have to transform them completely…  yet I am

optimistic, I am not pessimistic, and I am going to tell you why I am optimistic I am optimistic

because we have already put the building blocks of the revolution in place, and to a big degree I

would like to thank the Congress President, the Prime minister and the Congress party for

putting these building blocks in place. Let me tell you what these building blocks are, first of all

India is more connected today than it is ever being, we have the networks of roads, information,

communication, people and media for new idea to immerge for them to develop and take flight.

It is no longer possible to limit an idea whose time has come. Aadhar, let me speak about

Aadhar, it gives us unprecedental mechanism to recognize the unique journey of aspiration of

every single India no matter where he is. Direct cash transfer, is going to allow us to respondus

these dreams with an empowering delivering system.

My father use to speak about 15 paisa tothe rupee reaching the people and we today are preparing the system that is going to answerthat question, we are going to answer that question and 99% of people need money can go tothem, it is a revolution, it is a revolution and no other country has done it and we are preparingthat revolution

Congress is giving the people they due, is now called bribing the country , they say because

they scared , they  understand what kinds terms they can do  , and most important they can’t

understand for people in the Congress party , what the thinking in the Congress party ,

Panchayati Raj and women self have improvement  , they given the platform for democracy the

balance of national decisions…..must shift away to Delhi and  the state capitals to the

panchayat and to the world and Congress Party must continued to way to eventual battle to

overcome social presidium and discrimination against women, dalit , minorities  and tribes  I am

optimistic because of the buildings block ….. but am most optimistic and excited  because I see

the energy, the passion and capability  in our youth , bringing to respond to  their urgent

demand for jobs now, our institutions , learning and training must first informed us to repairing

youth in scales for best jobs in scale for the best job in the world , equally decisions that matter

to creating jobs need to be further liberated irrational red tape and outdated laws. So that the

tremendous energy of India youth will be fully unleashed   अब म. थोडा िहंदी म. संगठन के बारे म.

बोलना चाहता हँ अपने मुझे ये बहत बड़ी िज़Bमेदारी दी हैू ु .. और ये पाटF कहलाती है पर सचमुच  म. यह

एक हम पिरवार है  इस बात को आप मानते है यह िहंदMतान का शायद  दिनया का सबसे बड़ा पिरवार  ु ु

है और इसमे म. िहंदMतान म. सब लोग अPदर आ सकते है आप को Qया लगता है बदलाव की जTरत है ु

......तेज़ी से बदलाव की जTरत है मगर सोच समझ के बदलाव की जTरत है और सबको एक साथ

लेकर बदलाव की बात करनी है और बदलाव लाना है Uयार से करना है सोच समझकर करना है और

आपकी आवाज़ को सुनकर करना है समझ कर करना है म. पहले यूथ कांVेस का जनरल सेWेटेरी हआ ु

करता था ,एन एस यु आई का जनरल सेWेटेरी हआ करता था अब म. कांVेस पाटF म. ु vice  Yेिजड.ट हँू

आपको यह लगना  नहीं चािहए की राहल गाँधी युवाओ की बात करता है राहल गाँधी  का पिरवार यूथ ु ु

कांVेस , एन एस यु आई , कांVेस पाटF ,मिहला कांVेस सबके सब है और आज से राहल गाँधी सबके ु

िलए काम करेगा और  सबको .......कांVेस पाटF राहल गाँधी और सबको म. आपु को वायदा करना चाहता

हँ ू...सुिनए सुिनए और म. आपसे वायदा करता हँू.. 

एक ही आंख से एक ही तरीके से देखूंगा... चाहे वो यूथ कांVस का हो चाहे वो बुजुग\ हो, चाहे

Unexperience हो, experienced हो, मिहला हो जो भी हो जो आप कह.गे मै से सुनूंगा और समझने की

कोिशश क^ंगा राजहनीित म. म_ 8 9 साल से हं और म_ एक बात समझा हं काम करना है सोच समझ ू ूकर करना है गहराई से करना है और ज`दी से नही करना है बदलाव हो तो लBबे तौर पर हो ऐर गहराई

से हो एक दो चीज. म_ आप से कहना चाहता हंू.. बदलाव की बात आपने कही.. नीयम और कानून की

बात म_ कहना चाहता हंू.. कांVस पाटF एक ऐसा संगठन है दिनयां का सबसे बड़ा राजनीितक संगठन है ु

मगर इसम. िनयम और कानून नही चलते ह_... शायद एक भी िनयम और कानून इस पाटF म. नहीं है

हम हर दो िमनट नये िनयम बनाते ह_ पुराने िनयम दबा देते ह_ और यहां शायद िकसी को भी नहीं

मालूम कांVस पाटF के िनयम िकया है। मज़ेदार संगठन है कभी कभी पूछता हं म_ अपना आप से िक ू

भैया ये चलता कैसे है ये Election कैसे जीतता है.. ये बाकी पाटFयe का खतम कैसे कर देता है... समझ

नही आती है बात मगर Election के बाद धड़ाक से कांVेस पाटF जीत गई.. वक\र खड़ा हो गया नेता खड़े

हो गए... शीला जी मुझे कह रही थी िक भैया पता नही Qया होता है िक Election के पहले सब खड़े हो

जाते ह_ और धड़ाके से लड़ जाते ह_.........

इसम. िहPदMतान का ु DNA भरा है। और जो हमारे िवपgी दल ह_ वो समझत. नहीं ह_ इस बात को। वो

देखत. ह_ और कहत. ह_ िक ये हो Qया रहा है। कोई कहता है िक हम िकसी एक जात की पाटF है.. कोई

कहता की म_ िकसी एक धम\ की पाटF हंू.. और कांVेस पाटF कहती है िक हमारी DNA तो िहPदMतान की ुहै। हम न जात पहचानत. ह_..न धम\ पहचानत. ह_.. हम िसफ\ िहPदMतान की ु DNA पहचानत. ह_.. सबके सब है।

तो नीयम और कानून की जTरत है.. पहली बात.. दसरी बातू .. हम leadership development पर focus

नहीं करते। आज से 5-6 साल बात ऐसी बात होनी चािहए िक अगर िकसी state म. हम. Chief Minister

की जTरत हो.. तो जैसे पहले photo हआ करती थीु .. 40 फोटो हआ करती थी कांVेस पाटF कीु ... नहT

जी.. पटेल.. आजाद.. giants हआ करते थेु .. उनमे से कोई भी देश का Yधान मंjी बन सकता था.. ये

बात हमने करनी है.. हम. 40-50 नेता तैयार करने ह_.. जो देश को चला सक... िसफ\ Yदेश को नहीं..

देश को चला सक... 40-50 नेता ऐसे तैयार करने ह_ हर Yदेश म... हमारे पास 5-6-7-10 ऐसे नेता हe जो

Chief Minister बन सक.। और हर District म. ये बात हो.. हर Block म. यह बात हो.. और अगर हमसे

कोई पूछे की कांVेस पाटF Qया करती है.. कांVेस पाटF िहPदMतान के भिवkय के िलए नेता तैयार करती ुहै.. कांVेस पाटF सेQयूलर नेता, ऐसे नेता जो गहराई से िहPदMतान को समझते ह_ु , जो जनता से जुड़े हए ुह_ वैसे नेता तैयार करती है। ऐसे नेता तैयार करती है, िजनको िहPदMतान के सब लोग देख कर कहते ह_ ुभईया हम इनके पीछे खड़ा होना चाहते ह_। तो लीडरिशप डेवलपम.ट की जTरत है और इसके िलये ढांचे की जTरत है िसMटम की जTरत है इंफामmशन की जTरत है Qयeिक यहां पे जो नहीं होता है, इसिलये नहीं होता है िक कोई चाहता नहीं है, इसिलये नहीं होता है िक कोई िसMटम नहीं है और िसMटम बनाया जा सकता है और इस िसMटम को आप लोग बनाओगे और आप लोग चलाओगे। हम िटकट की बात करते ह_, जमीन पे हमारा काय\कता\ काम करता है यहां हमारे िडिMnQट Yेिसड.ट बैठे ह_, oलॉक Yेिसड.qस ह_ oलॉक कमेटीज ह_ िडिMnQट कमेटीज ह_ उनसे पूछा नहीं जाता, ह_ यहां िडिMnQट Yेिसड.ट? ह_। िटकट के समय उनसे नहीं पूछा जाता, संगठन से नहीं पूछा जाता, ऊपर से िडसीजन िलया जाता है भईया इसको िटकट िमलना चािहए, होता Qया है दसरे दलe के लोग आ जाते ह_ चुनाव के पहले आ जाते ह_ू , नहीं सुनो, सुनो।
 

आ जाते ह_, चुनाव हार जाते ह_ और िफर चले जाते ह_ और हमारा काय\कता\ कहता है भईया, वो ऊपर

देखता है चुनाव से पहले ऊपर देखता है, ऊपर से पैराशूट िगरता है धड़ाक! नेता आता है, दसरी पाटF से ू

आता है चुनाव लड़ता है िफर हवाई जहाज म. उड़ के चला जाता है।
 

सबसे पहले कांVेस पाटF के काय\कता\ की इsजत होनी चािहए और िसफ\ काय\कता\ की इsजत नहीं,

नेताओं की इsजत, नेताओं की इsजत का मतलब Qया है? िक अगर नेता ने अtछा काम िकया है, अगर

नेता जनता के िलये काम कर रहा है चाहे वह जूिनयर नेता हो या सीिनयर नेता हो, िजतना भी छोटा हो,

िजतना भी बड़ा हो अगर वो काम कर रहा है तो उसे आगे बढ़ाना चािहए, अगर वो काम नहीं कर रहा है

तो उसको कहना चािहए भईया आप काम नहीं कर रहे हो और अगर 2-3 बार कहने के बाद काम नहीं

िकया तो िफर दसरे को चांस देना चािहए। और अंत म. जो हमारे ही लोग हमारे िखलाफ खड़े हो जाते ह_ ूचुनाव के समय इंिडप.ड.ट खड़े हो जाते ह_ जो इंिडप.ड.ट को खड़ा कर देते ह_ उनके िखलाफ एQशन लेने की जTरत है। आप सब ये चीज. जानते ह_ म_ भी जानता हं सब लोग जानते ह_ कमी इंिUलम.टेशन म. है और ूहम इंिUलम.टेशन अगर िमल के कर.गे, यहां पे vान है, जानकारी है हम ये काम कर सकते ह_ और िजस िदन हमने ये काम कर िदया, हमारे सामने कोई नहीं खड़ा रह पायेगा। िजस िदन जनता की आवाज कांVेस पाटF के अंदर गूंजने लगी, आज गूंजती है बािकयe से sयादा गूंजती है, मगर िजस िदन गहराई से गूंजने लेगेगी, िजस िदन पंचायत, वाड\ के लोग यहां आ के बैठ जाय. उस िदन हम. कोई नहीं हरा पायेगा,और होगा Qया िक जो आज हमारे अंदर कभी-कभी गुMसा आता है दःख होता हैु , xMटेशन आती है वो कम हो जायेगा, मुMकुराहट. आ जाय.गी, लोग कह.गे भईया मजा आ रहा है िवपgी पािट\यe को हराते ह_मजे से लड़.गे, मजे से जीत.गे।  

म_ िपछले 8 साल से ये काम कर रहा हँ और म_ने आपसे कहा की अपने मुझे िसखाया हैू , senior नेता

बैठे है कल म_ने भोला जी का भाषण सुना िकतनी गहरी बात बोली उPहeने और युवा भी थे उPहeने ने भी

गहरी बात बोली, chidambaram जी थे  और उPहeने ने भी गहरी बात बोली, Anthony जी थे उPहeने ने

गहरी बात बोली। यहाँ पे capability की कोई कमी नहीं है, गहराए की कोई कमी नहीं है और िजस Yकार

ये party सोचती है िजतनी depth इस पाटF म. है और कही नहीं है। Parliament म. देखता है सब जगह

देखता है और म_ आपको ये बताना चाहता हँ की म_ सब कुछ नहीं जनता हँू ू, दिनया म_ ऐसा कोई {यि| ु

नहीं जो सब कुछ जनता हो। मगर अगर आपसे पूछा Congress party म_ करोडe लोग ह_ कही न कही

जानकारी ज़^र ह_, म_ आपसे ये कहना चाहता हँ की म_ उस जानकारी को ू ढंढंगाू ू । senior नेताओ से

पूछूंगा, Sheila जी यहाँ बैठी, Gehlot जी बैठे है, Alvi जी बैठे है,बहत सरे िजनके नामु  नहीं ले सकता हँ ू

उन सब से पूछूंगा और आपसे सीखूंगा Qयुकी इस party का इितहास आपके अPदर है, इस party की सोच

आपके अPदर है और म_ िसफ\ आपकी आवाज़ को आगे बढ़ाऊं गा , जो सुनायी द.गा उससे आगे बढ़ाऊं गा  

और fairness की बात होती है, कल म_ने meeting म_ कहा की कचेरी म. दो लोग होते है एक lawyer

होता है दसरा ू judge होता है, म_ judge का काम क^ँगा lawyer का काम नहीं क^ँगा। अब म_ वापस थोडा

अंVेजी म_ बोलना चाहता हँ Qयूंू की South India के लोग कह रहे हeगे..

तिमल तो म_ बोल नहीं सकता। तो थोडा म_ आपको अब इमोशनल बात कहना चाहता हँ िदल की बात ू

कहना चाहता हँ। ू 

This morning I got up at night, 4 O’clock in the morning I got out into the balcony I thought “Now

you have a big responsibility in front of you and this people are standing behind you, people are

standing on your side.” It was dark and it was cold and I had decided I am not going to tell you

only what you wanted to hear, I decided I goanna tell you little bit about what I feel, I want tell

you about hope, and also want to tell you about power. 

When I was a little boy I love to play badminton. I loved it because it gives me balance in a

complicated world. I was taught how to play in my grandmother’s house by two police men who

protected my grandmother. They were my friends, then one day they killed my grandmother and

took way the balance in my life. I felt pain that I never felt before and many of us have

experienced this so you will understand what I am saying. 

My father was in Bengal and he came back the hospital was dark green and dirty. And there

was a huge crowd screaming outside they were very angry and as we entered they were

screaming and shouting. It was the first time in my life that I saw my father was crying, he was

the bravest person I knew and yet I saw him crying.

I was small but I could see my father was broken, he had taken away his mother and he was

broken. In those days our country wasn’t what it is today. In the eyes of the world we had

nothing. We wre worthless. We didn’t have money, we didn’t have cars, everybody said were

were a poor country. Nobody thought about us. Same evening I was my father addressing the

nation on television. I knew like me he was broken inside and even like me he was terrified of

what lay in front of him but when he spoke that night I felt the small glimmer of hope. It was like

a small ray of light in a dark sky. I can still remember what it felt like. If you think back lot of you

will also remember this. The next day I realized that many people had seen it. Today as I look

back and I has a political career of 8 years in 42 years I can see it was a small ray of hope in

the darkness that helped changed India into what I is today. Without hope you can not achieve

anything. You can have plans, you can have ideas, but unless you have hope you can not

change anything. I want to talk to you about power. Last night every single one of you

congratulated me, many of you came and hugged me and congratulated me. Everybody

congratulated me but last night my mother came to my room and she cried, why did she cried?

she cried because she understand that the power so many people seek its actually a poison she

can see it , what it does to a people around and to the people they love but the most important

that she can see it , she not attached to it , the only anti poked to this poison is for all of us to

see it for what it is really is and not become attached to it , we should not chased power for

attribute to some power , we should only use it to empower voices. In our work it is my mother

experience for the life time it is my experience for 8 years and am sure many of you to deal with

power every day , understand what I am saying and realize the positive and the negative, and

we must not forget that there is negative, that you have to be very careful when you doing

administer power , when you use power , today India is not like what it was in 1984. 

We are no longer worthless. 

Today the entire world is coating us today we are the future and as I said before nations are not

build on scheme and finance. There is a foundation of hope. I am standing here because I

believe that congress party is the symbol of this hope and as party has the potential to embody

here. I like to end again by saying that for me the congress party is now my life. The people of

India my life and I will fight for the people of India and for this party. I will fight with everything I

have and I invite all of you to stand up and take on this fight.  

Thank you 

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Monday, January 21, 2013

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