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Everybody is in a good mood.

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I'd like to apologize for the delay.

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My fault, so apologies.

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We want to put some points across here about what has recently been in the news.

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So I want

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I want you to listen to these videos carefully.

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I want you to notice the tone of these videos. And I want you to listen carefully to what is being said.

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Why I

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am showing you these videos is because I come from a political family and I spent 50 years, more than 50 years in a political family.

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no political leader who operates in a democratic environment

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can say or make such a statement because in India there is a

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fundamental force called anti-incumbency that very quickly

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starts to resist any government

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and it does not spare anybody

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Indira Gandhiji wins the Bangladesh war

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is at the height of her popularity and then suddenly within a year or two

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massive anti-incumbency massive pressure the same exact thing

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happens to leader after leader after leader happens to congress leaders

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happens to regional parties but for some reason it never happens

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to Mr. Narendra Modi does not happen to Mr. Shah does not happen to the BJP

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Haryana swings from one party to another for 50 years

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suddenly anti-incumbency disappears Maharashtra swings suddenly it disappears

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Uttar Pradesh swings sometimes Samajwadi sometimes BASP it disappears

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Madhya Pradesh it disappears Gujarat it disappears and this has been a fundamental question for us

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we can understand the popularity of a person

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we can understand the performance of a government but we cannot understand

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how anti-incumbency disappears

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anti-incumbency does not exist in Saddam Hussein's Iraq

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it does not exist in North Korea there is no democracy on this planet where anti-incumbracy does not exist

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and so this has been a puzzle for us that this Hindustan ki sabse badi political force

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kaha gaib ho gai and we have been looking for the answer and we have found the answer

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the vote is the foundation of our country

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and I want to explain this because from the vote

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which is supposed to be protected by the election commission our

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constitution gets its power from the vote the constitution

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gets its power from the constitution our laws are made and from our laws

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emerge our institutions this is a chain and this chain defines modern India

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