Sam Pitroda's remarks show Congress's mindset: BJP's K Annamalai

Providing drinking water to the people around Hyderabad and joining me on this hot, humid, sunny day is the star campaigner of the Bharatiya Janta Party in the southern states. Anna Malai joins us. He’s called the Singham of Tamil Nadu. Created a bit of a stir in the battlefield in Tamil Nadu. Now you’re being deputed by your party outside Tamil Nadu. You havent proven yourself in Tamil Nadu yet. You become a star camper in Telangana. I am only doing what work party has given. Sir, there are not. I am visible to you. There are hundreds of karyakartas outside Tamil Nadu who are working in Andhra. Now they are doing a work that is going to support our candidates here. Everybody is busy. The state president is busy. All leaders are busy. We manage the office. We do some work for them. It is our duty. So there’s nothing to prove or not to prove, Sir, we are doing a duty as Karikarpet. You know the big story today is this comment made by Congress leader Sam Pedroda where he said people in the South are like Africans, those in the east are like Chinese. What do you make of this comment from Sam Pedroda who seems to have shot his mouth off again? Very unfortunate Sir. What he said today is very unfortunate because Africans, Chinese, Arabs, whites. I’m not saying it is a wrong term, its OK, they are their own culture and civilization. But what he means is we are dissonance of invaders. Somebody has invaded our country and we are dissonance of those invaders. That is why W Arab Northeast he called Chinese, N he calls white and South he calls Africans. This shows their mindset and that is why I mentioned in my tweet also. Now this is coming from SARM Trikoda sitting in US and essentially coming from Congress party. You are linked with George Soros and the leaders have got an origin that is outside the country. They are not in Bharatiya spirit. They are shooting their mouth because they believe in it, in the heart. That is why it is important. Like our Prime Minister says, India is getting ready for a Congress. Muth Bharat once again in our thinking, in our lifestyle and people of India are watching not only this inheritance tax, now this. And every Congress leader is competing with each other to show the people of our country who can shoot their mouth more. But it seems that Sam Petrola is like a lucky omen good luck charm for the BJP. Its almost like you all have propped him up. Kikuch BOLO boss create some masala which gives the BJP A punching bag to attack the Congress with an indiscipline party cannot go further Sir. If you look at a party that does doesn’t have its communication strategy, Anybody can say anything. And Congress party for what we are seeing, its a disparate group of individuals who have assembled which is glued by the Gandhi parivar. Rahul Gandhiji is the face of it 0. Discipline, communication. We are seeing anybody can speak anything they want and that is a reflection of Congress mindset. A disciplined party cannot go anywhere be it governance be it an asperage and power. And Sam petrology is severely undisciplined. Inheritance track just created an issue. Now again is calling that too is standing by it. Sir look at the language he spoke. He said India is such a complex country to govern. So meaning he says that we are not Bharatiyas we are not a single group of individuals. We are alike with each other in this. That is why Congress mentioned S is different. N is different. Congress mentions Northeast is different. Now Sam Petroda has given some logic to what Congress is saying, very indisciplined. You know the other big controversy is the Prime Minister targeting the Congress for not attacking Ambani Adani. Now given the charges that have been leveled by the by the Congress at the BJP for being close to these industrial groups, what do you as a strategist as a political worker think of the Prime Minister using Ambani Adani who now attack the Congress. No Sir. We watched the prime ministers speech today in Telangana. So what he meant is now for Congress. Ambani Adani is a dirty word. They say oh you are dirty people. That is how the whole narrative they are running it from 2019. Very specifically now PM is saying OK you please tell us how much money you have taken from the industrialist. You may mention dirty money. You disclose to the people of our country who has backed you, who has given you money and so-called dirty money you come out and open. I think Prime Minister is only saying for a long time Congress is vilifying interest list in our country. And Congress mindset is somebody is an interest list meaning they have done something wrong. If somebody has earned money the legal way also in Congress mindset you have made it the illegal way. Our honorable Prime Minister in Telangana today has come out in the open to say OK, you’re calling them like this. Now you come out in the open to say you havent taken any political money, be it a state unit, be it a central unit even in the legal way. You havent taken any money, come out in the open. Let Congress come out in the open and say they don’t have any association with Ambanis and Adanis. Sir, at any point of time during any elections, let them come out of the open and say currently in Telangana helping the BJP with its Telangana campaign. What is Telangana looking like? Because this is the one state where the Congress thinks it is in a good position to give the BJP a fight and the BJP hopes to more than double its tally from last time. Its a very interesting election in Telangana. Sir, 17 seats and Congress believes Telangana has their 4th BJP. 2019 we had four MPs. People of Telangana have given but this time you see Sir, when June 4 results are coming, Telangana is in a very clear mood. First, they rejected TRS in the Assembly election. They are going to reject Congress in the Lok Sabha election because of how the Congress have behaved over the last few months. They gave wrong promises, 6 guarantees, they came to power. They couldn’t even fulfill a single guarantee. And Congress in its narration in its speech complete anti Hindu. The Election Commission, the Chief Electoral officer has banned 1 Congress star campaigner from using certain words Whether Ram is your Chacha Chachi. This is the kind of language that they say there’s a fight between Lord Ram and Lord Shiva. This is the kind of language Congress uses now. Anti Hindu in its nature, anti development. Yesterday in Hyderabad rains you have seen the kind of choke point that happened. So people are very clear. First we rejected TRS, now we will reject Congress now. BJP naturally is in the pole position. Now in 17 seats, you will see a major shift of voters to BJP decide. But as one of the major faces of the BJP in the South, do you concede that the southern election is very different from the election in the north, the West and the east? Because in the South the opposition seems to be far better placed than it is in Karnataka. The election is tighter in Telangana because this is state government. The dynamics are very different from the rest of the country. I might not agree with it wholly, Sir. In fact I’ll put it like this. Here the political parties are more entrenched. The so-called Dravidian party, so-called regional parties, they’re more entrenched in Tamil Nadu. If you see 70 years its Dravidian parties again Karnataka for a long time Congress state again, Puducherry long time Congress state again. Look at Kerala, long time Congress, communist state. So we are only looking at that first door to open. We just want that one door to open so that people actually see BJPS development model. So till you see, no. But we saw in Karnataka it was a very corrupt kind of development model with lots of infighting. So its not like you were able to provide Ram Raji and Karnataka which is why you got voted out. Karnataka is a complex state. In 30 years no party has retained power. Sir, instead of saying that typical anti incubancy has caught up, we have to agree that Karnataka people always want to change. I can give you Sir, 2013 Congress came to power, its super majority. 2014 we swept it in Lok Sabha. 2018 the same thing happened. 19 we swept it. 2023 the same thing happened. So Karnataka is a pro Modi state. People love Modiji like anything. This time also in 28 seats you will see Sir in South. All we are looking at is 1. Opportunity people should give us specifically in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and all. So that people see our developmental model in Telangana. That opportunity BJP is going to get in 2024, June 4. Do you think Coimbatore could be that door? We are hoping Sir. We are hoping Coimbatore. We have fought very hard. Kanyakumari many parts of Tamil Nadu. We have fought very, very hard S Tamil Nadu, Western part Chennai. In fact a sitting governor, she chose to resign. Her heart was in politics. She came to Chennai to contest. So this point of time in Tamil Nadu for a kind of information also Sir, in Peramballur, the sitting MP who won in DMK symbol, he contested in BJP symbol. This time a sitting MP in Peramballur who won in DMK symbol, he contested in BJP symbol. This time. So good leaders contested. So we are extremely confident. June 4th will be kind to BJP and NDA in Tamil Nadu. What do you think of this North-south divide? You know, we had DK Suresh say that they should be a separate southern state because we interviewed Revanth Reddy, he says. BJP doesn’t give that kind of prominence to southern leaders. Your MPs from Hyderabad, Karnataka don’t have the kind of prominence that they should that UP and Gujarat are dominating now. Revanth Reddy Garu, Couple of months back when PM was on the stage, he mentioned this. Revanth Reddy exactly mentioned in Hindi. I’m going to say that in English, he said Modiji is my bada bhai, Revanth Reddy Garu said. He said Modiji doesn’t discriminate as a chief minister. He says he never felt Modiji discriminated. Revanth Reddy Goro also said he wants the Gujarat model of development to Telangana. He also said like how Modiji has done Sabarmati, he wants to do for Musirivaria. This is Revanth Reddy Garu. Before the model code of conduct election came, now same Revanth Reddy Garu. After MCC has come, he is speaking a political language. Sir, anybody in South will know Telangana got 9,00,000 crore. We got 10,76,000 crore. No discrimination happened to anybody. It is only Revanth Reddy Garu who has to say how many times the South Congress government got dismissed by Rajiv Gandhi and Indra Gandhiji. People like Virendra Patel Ji governments in Tamil Nadu. Even Congress defeated Karma Virar Kamaraj Raja who was the chief minister. Now Congress doesn’t have any right to say moment in Congress. Any southern leaders become tall, become a competition to the Gandhi Parivar. They use 356 and dismiss them. Virendra Patel Ji is a classic example. Karma Virar Kamaraj Rai has a classic example. Now why did Revanth Reddy Garu as Chief Minister said this after election is announced? Why is he saying this? There are people in politics, some in your party, some outside, who think that Annamalai put his personal interest first by constantly talking against the AIDMK, making it impossible for Mr. Pallani Sami to stay with the NDA. You chose to put your personal interest ahead of the Ndas, interest of the NDA for BJP plus AIIDMK, you would have done better than the BJP fighting alone in this election. We have to understand there’s nothing called personal interest is always the parties interest. We are here to bring BJP to power. We are here to bring Modiji for a record third term with a historic mandate. That’s very clear goal Sir. 2019, you see BJP and ADMK alliance in Tamil Nadu. Where were we? Where were we Sir? Every seat. We lost by two lakhs 2 1/2 lakh margin. It was the worst possible defeat for us in 2019. Modiji having such a great name that doing so much the Adm case anti incubancy got transferred to us. Adm case corruption got transferred to us. AD MK is so corrupt. Now we have to understand in an alliance also. It is important that alliance partners carry the load and AD MK has to carry their load. Nothing. Coimbatore 2014 Adm KB JP Contested Separately 2019 We contested together. So BJP got lesser number of votes in an alliance. Then what? BJP got standing alone. Now everybody in Tamil Nadu, the writing was on the wall. ADMK was not behaving as a proper alliance partner. How many times Mr. Adapati Palli Samiji spoke about Prime Minister Never. He never used Prime Ministers name. How many times he wanted to say that this NDA, our model economic model never. And you cannot sit in an alliance where we have wanted three language formula. ADMK doesn’t want a three language formula. You cannot sit in an alliance where Adapati Palla Jamiji is against need. We want need. You cannot sit in an alliance where they were also saying that we are discriminating Tamil Nadu. So how will the alliance gel, Sir? So this time you will see we will deliver a historic result in NDA. If you have gone with the ADMK 100%, the results would be much poorer than what we are getting now. So we are currently in the middle of the Hussein Sagar Lake and that’s the famous Buddha statue behind us. So what we want to do is also give you a flavor of the city, give you a flavor of the campaign. So we are going to go for a quick walk around that. Anna Garu, please come with us. Let’s just go for a yes. So what you’re trying to do essentially, Anna, is rewrite the political calculus of Tamil Nadu. What you’re trying to do is, you know, take a state which is typically been a Dravidian state, either you’re pro DMK or pro AIDMK and you’re trying to rewrite the political dynamics of the state. How long do you think this project will take Sir? Are you fighting the truth or 2031 elections? What is it that you have in? I firmly believe when you have leaders like Prime Minister Narendra Modi Ji, When you have pakka strategist and hardcore party were leaders like Amit Shahji now and a president like JP Nataji. If you are doing not doing it now, you will never do it Sir. Because you are having such a wonderful leadership in Delhi which is guiding, which is very clear, which is very aggressive also putting national and party interest front. So we believe this is the time Modiji, 10 years of government, if you are not able to showcase to people of Tamil Nadu that we are very different from the Dravidian parties. When will get that moment Sir? I believe 2024 will open the doors. Increased vote share number of MPs 2026. We believe reasonably we can come because Tamil Nadu, there is a political vacuum. They are not generally Taji, they are not Karunanidhi G Now three years DMK has completed. Look at the anti incumbency DMK has generated. Of course they have a larger alliance. They are looking at consolidating their respective vote share. That is different argument, Sir. 2026, we believe, will be our time for you. It might look very optimistic or very bombastic, what I’m saying, but but we, we earnestly believe Tamil Nadu. Once you cross that 18% vote share as a party, the next 12 percent, 13% will come quickly, Sir. Just a matter of time because people shift very fast. There are some who are fans of Anna Malai and then there are some who say you’re a helium balloon. You know, there’s too much air is being pumped into you by the central leadership because there is a vacuum. They don’t have a face. They need someone So make him larger than life, make him look like his Tamil Nadu Singam actually is not as big as he’s made out to be. That this is the media. You speak to anybody in the AIDMK or the DMK, That’s what they say, that he’s a media, social media creation. You’re right, Sir. I’m not saying that anybody can say anything. I can’t shut their mouth. But I am a party worker. We are working hard for the party. The party will grow. Of course. We got a long mile to grow a lot of elections to prove our leadership is under test and we have to deliver. I completely agree with you with all humility. Long way to go. The party is neither propping anybody. We are in the ground working and the party is aggressive. We are taking on the DMK, questioning the party like ADMK for three years. They can’t open their mouth suddenly. They are only if you look at the whole election. ADMK was attacking BJP. They are not even attacking DMK. You track the Tamil Nadu Lok Sabha elections. You cannot run a political party. That ADMK is ethos is anti DMK but now it has become anti BJP over the last 3-4 months because they know very clearly BJP is getting into that space, anti DMK space. There is a philosophical underpinning which is antigonistic towards the BJP which is that this is a state where Hindi is looked at with derision. You know, they’re not big Hindi fans. Secondly, there’s a NS kind of sentiment that BJP seen as a party of the Hindi heartland. So its really like you know, trying to irrigate or farm in a very barren land. Its very difficult to have a good produce over here. Our state is a state where some of the tallest Congress leaders pre 1967 were there including the great Kamaraj Raiya. Nationalism was there everywhere. Congress was winning elections and people were acceptable of a National Party. This is the story before 1967 even. I’m talking about 20 years after independence now 1965 and the Congress tried to disastrously push Hindi. That is where everything started. Party got out. Karma Kamaraj Raiya was defeated by this unholy alliance of Communist and DMK together. So we believe Sir, Tamil Nadu is never an anti center state. It is Congress which made it anti center by their behavior. Now Congress party you believe Sir, for everything you have done. They pushed Hindi into it. They pushed everything that Tamil Nadu is inimical. They put to it. They banned Jallikattu during the tenure and now Congress shamelessly aligns with DMKDMK, seamlessly aligns with Congress and they talk about BJP which is again the interest of Tamil Nadu. This is the biggest joke one can hear. If you look at everything, every action that has happened against Tamil Nadu over the last 50-60 years, you will see Congress everywhere. So unfortunately what has happened? So national parties are getting affected narrative wise because of Congress. If there is one government in the last 10 years which is pro Tamil Nadu. Modiji Sir, you just imagine Sir, if you look at the BJP manifesto, look at all the regional languages, look at all the BJPS manifesto, it is only Modiji who said he will build Thiru all over centers across the world and he will give Tamil the respect it deserves. So this is a pinpointed manifesto guarantee that Modiji gave. So which other language you saw this Sir, that is the love Modiji has got for Tamil and Sangol in the center of Parliament. Kasi, Tamil Sangamam Saurashtra Tamil Sangam and and you cannot have a better leader who’s not born in Tamil Nadu, having Tamil Nadu interests at heart than Modiji. So whatever they say, Sir, I agree it is all 197019801990 Narrative 2024 June 4. You will see it is truly broken for the final time and the last time you know, the big debate in this election has been around reservation. We were speaking to Revanth Reddy this morning. He says the BJP is you know going to take away reservation that this is a party that is basically, you know, because the RSS ideology is a merit based ideology fundamentally opposed to reservation at the core. Therefore, at some point in time that’s the one ideological agenda left key reservation. Hatana Sir, Now one thing we have to understand, today morning if you look at Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru jis letter to chief ministers at different points of time he was against reservation. He called people coming to reservation a second grade and 3rd grade citizens. This is Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. Let us to chief ministers and at different points of time, if you look at Congress mindset, Rajiv Gandhiji Mandal Commission report, he said opening a can of worms. VP Singh is trying to create a caste society. So Congress leaders at different point of time, they were against reservation per say. They were against the constitutional norms. There is one party that completely stood with the constitutional ethos and spirit. It is BJP. Modiji is very clear. We are very clear. We are here to strengthen the Constitution further. Whatever damage they have done to Indian Constitution, it is watch page and Modiji of strength and death. I will give you a simple thing Sir, 39th amendment to Indian Constitution. Of course you know 39th amendment 1975. June Allahabad High Court gave a judgment against Indira Gandhiji for electoral malpractice. August 7th. I want you to remember the date, Sir. August 7th 1975. Thursday she brought the 39th amendment into Lok Sabha saying nobody can question the election of President, Vice President, Prime Minister and Speaker. Just to say her chair. August 8th Rajya Sabha, August 919-7517 Congress assemblies joined together past the 39th amendment. August 10, 1975 Sunday morning President signs August 10, 1975. Sunday afternoon, the government office is kept open printing press. They publish A gazet because August 11, 1975, it is coming for Supreme Court for hearing. They want to go to Supreme Court and say no, no, we have passed the amendment. You cannot question my election. Now they are talking about Constitution. A party which brazenly shamelessly Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday destroyed the Constitution 42nd Amendment destroyed the Constitution. Use 356 just like an ice cream candy. Dismiss. Governments took the spirit out of this Constitution. They don’t have any moral right to talk about BJP and Constitution. Hindi politics Hindi Amara boss Amara leaders. We are only leaders. We don’t have Congress boss mentality. So language is an opportunity to communicate. Maraco Kannada, Karan me Karanataka me, Kamkia, Tamil Nadu State Mera State Maraco, Tamil Malum me, Telugu Sikka me, Mushkil, Malayalam. So Hindi is something I’m trying to learn, Sir. Language can only unite people. Language can never divide people. But there is a strong anti Hindi sentiment. Tamil Nadu chahta Hindi I Sir AAP Ki party ka mool adhare Ki Hindi ko promote karo anti Hindi imposition statement Tamil Nadu mehe. Anybody is pushing Hindi compulsorily saying you learn Tamil Nadu has got a problem. Now if you look at the exam, the Hindi exam that settle government conducts the level one exam. The level one of the Hindi you call pratnik. Pratnik, you call Hindi 2021. More Tamil people took Prathnik than any any person in India. More Tamil people took Prathnik. Hindi Prachar Sabha in Tamil Nadu was established by Mahatma Gandhiji. It is, it is in Chennai. We have to understand Sir, Tamil people are never averse to Hindi. They learn Hindi, they can communicate in Hindi. They do business across the world in India. Now DMK has shifted this narrative to say imposition of Hindi is equivalent to learning Hindi. That is getting broken now even three language formula, Modiji says you pick up a third language of your choice. Sir Mahakavi Subramania, Bharati. I’m sure you know Bharati, he said in Tamil Yamarinda, Muligalile Tamil meaning among all the languages say no, Tamil is the sweetest language. Of course Tamil is his mother tongue but he know 14 languages including Hindi. Then he said it is not that I learn only Tamil. As DMK fellow in a mic, I say oh, Tamil is the superior language in the world. Of course Tamil is the is the oldest language for you. You are mother tongue is superior for me. My mother tongue is superior. We should not get rid of this theory. To say my language superiority overrules your language superiority. That is what DMK is doing. Nothing wrong in learning a language, Sir, which all the youngsters of Tamil Nadu you come and see. Their mindset is completely different. They want to learn Hindi, they want to learn Kannada, they want to learn Telugu. They want to learn any language they want. This has been a very beautiful boat ride. I was a little worried about how hot it will be, but because we are moving its very pleasant. Thank you very much for joining us and all the best for your campaign and for the adventure. I would like to welcome you to Chennai Coimbatore sometime. Look forward to being with you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you so much.