Kejriwal took on PM Modi to defend freebies... but are these freebies actually economically sustainable?
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00:00If there is selfishness in politics, then anyone can come and announce that petrol and diesel are free.
00:12Giving free facilities to the public will harm the country.
00:17Then what is the government's job?
00:30The government's job is to make sure that the public has access to clean energy.
00:43The government's job is to make sure that the public has access to clean energy.
00:50The government's job is to make sure that the public has access to clean energy.
00:57The government's job is to make sure that the public has access to clean energy.
01:06The government's job is to make sure that the public has access to clean energy.
01:18Friends, if there is selfishness in politics, then anyone can come and announce that petrol and diesel are free.
01:31Such steps will take away their rights from our children.
01:38They will stop the country from becoming self-reliant.
01:43With such selfish policies, the burden of the honest taxpayers of the country will continue to increase.
01:53I think that there will be fraud with the taxpayers only when they take tax from them and with that tax money, the loans of their friends' banks are forgiven.
02:10Fraud with the taxpayers does not mean that we give good and free education to their children.
02:18Fraud with the taxpayers does not mean that we give good treatment to the people of the country for free.
02:25Fraud with the taxpayers happens only when they forgive the loans of their friends.
02:31If the loans of 10 lakh crores were not forgiven, then I think the country would not be in such a deplorable state today.
02:40We would not have to put GST on milk and curd.
02:44Giving free facilities to the public will cause harm to the country.
02:49Then what is the job of the government?
02:51My dear brothers and sisters, this is not a policy, it is unethical.
02:58This is not a national interest, it is a national injustice.
03:04This is not a national creation, it is an attempt to push the nation back.
03:11To deal with the challenges in front of the country, we need a clear intention, determination and policy.
03:24For this, efforts have to be made and the government has to invest a lot of money.
03:38If the government does not have money, then ethanol plants, biogas plants, solar plants, hydrogen gas plants will also be shut down.
03:57Has the economic condition of the central government deteriorated?
04:04Why is the opposition so strong?
04:07For the past 75 years, free education has been provided in government schools.
04:12For the past 75 years, poor people have been getting free medicines in government hospitals.
04:18Free ration is sent every month.
04:20What happened all of a sudden that all these things were shut down, all these things were taken back?
04:27Why is there such a strong opposition against all these things?
04:32Is the economic condition of the central government okay?
04:36We have to remember that we may or may not live, but this nation will always live.
04:48It has been living for centuries, it is going to live for centuries.
04:53The children who live in it will always live.
04:59We do not have the right to destroy the future of our future children.
05:06Friends, those who sacrifice their lives for freedom have also worked with this eternal feeling.
05:19We have been celebrating 75 years of freedom since independence.
05:24For the first time, a poor man's wheat and rice has been taxed.
05:31Tax has been imposed on food items.
05:33No government has ever imposed it.
05:36This is the most cruel thing.
05:39A poor man, a beggar, who has nothing.
05:45When he will buy wheat and rice from the market, he will have to pay tax on it.
05:49No government has taken such a cruel step.
05:53Tax has been imposed on wheat, rice, jaggery, honey, buttermilk, curd, cheese.
06:07What was the need for this?
06:10What was the condition of the central government that the poorest man had to pay tax on food, which had never happened in 75 years?
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