 K.C. Bendu Gopal, Shashi Tharoor, H.M. Hassan, K.Murli Dharan, V.S. Shivkumar, S.S. Lal, senior leaders of the Dias, congress leaders and workers, brothers and sisters, friends from the media, I would like to welcome all of you here today. There is an election taking place in Kerala and it is about the future of this state. After coming to Kerala as an MP, I got to see Kerala differently than before I was an MP. I used to view Kerala as a state in India. One of many different states I used to see certain successes in Kerala, in India, even outside and I used to say these are successes of people from the state of Kerala. Once I was in the Middle East on an official visit and they said they would like to show me a hospital. I went to the hospital and it was a very fancy hospital, excellent machines, high technology, all sorts of communications, shining floors and after visiting the hospital we sat down and they were giving me some tea and so I asked them what is the secret of this hospital, this is a very fantastic hospital. I used to say we have the best technology, we have the best strategy, we have the best ideas about how to cure diseases but they didn't say that. Without even thinking they answered my question, they said the secret to this hospital are nurses from Kerala. They said this, immediately my mind thought they are seeing nurses from Kerala but there are nurses in many other states in India. So I asked the question but tell me what is so great, what is so special about these nurses from Kerala? He answered, he said Kerala nurses they understand a patient suffering better than anybody else. And this he said was to be quite a big thing and an interesting thing. Why I thought to myself are Kerala nurses able to understand suffering better than others. And I carried this idea with me, with question with me. Then when I became a member of parliament there was a tragedy in Vayanad. Heavy rains, lot of people died. And then again I noticed that when Vayanad was reacting to this tragedy suddenly it was as if one person was reacting to this tragedy. Suddenly all differences between people disappeared. So then again I saw another glimpse of this Kerala. And slowly slowly I have realized that Kerala is not just a state. People say I used to see God's own country. I used to think what is this, first time I saw it I must say I was a bit surprised by it. What is this God's own country, the whole world is God's. Because at that time I have not understood what you people are about. And so slowly slowly as I have developed a relationship with you I have started to realize that you are not just a state, you are an idea, you are a way of looking at the world. And it is not like you go to the United States for example. And then you talk to them about their history and they say 200 years ago this happened. And I remember thinking when they said 200 years ago this happened I remember thinking there is a tree in my garden which is 150 years old. So it is not just an idea that is new, it is an idea that is very old and comes with a profound experience. For example we are sitting in a religious cultural center, a center of knowledge and Kerala is full of these places. Each one occupying its own space but all of them combining to form this idea. Now I don't pretend to understand this idea. I cannot imagine saying to you that I understand your history, your culture, your tradition, your language. But I can sense that there is something beyond my understanding that is taking place. I can see suddenly Kerala nurses are being successful. Suddenly I see in Vayanan a completely different response to a tragedy. I see young Keralites becoming successful in IT. And that is my problem with the BJP and the RSS. And my problem is it comes from two angles. Is they attack this unity and this idea? And the second they pretend to understand it. This is an act of extreme arrogance. And frankly it goes against our religion. The core of our religion says that there are things that are beyond your understanding. In fact the core of all religions says that. And it says that you need to accept that there are certain things beyond your understanding and you need to be humble. Now I ask you was demonetization a humble decision? One evening the Prime Minister of India doesn't listen to the voice of Kerala, doesn't listen to the voice of Punjab, doesn't listen to the voice of Haryana, doesn't listen to the voice of Bengal, doesn't listen to his cabinet, doesn't listen to anybody turns around and says I am now demonetizing India's currency. And with his arrogance he shatters millions and millions of lives. Few months after that, again without any conversation with the people of Kerala, without any conversation with the small and medium business, without any conversation with the farmers, he says at midnight I am passing GST. And again destroys the Indian economy. And recently one asks why are farmers standing outside Delhi? Why are they suddenly deciding lakhs and lakhs of farmers to stand in front of Delhi? Because again a decision has been taken with absolutely no respect. I spoke to hundreds of workers, thousands of workers walking back from cities to their homes, crying. And I asked them, what are you feeling? And the answer was, didn't the Prime Minister understand that if he doesn't look down with no warning, people like us will die? Crying, they told me, why didn't teachers wait for four days? We have lost everything we had. And then when they ask for a bus ticket, for a train ticket to go back home, he says no. What exactly is religious about this action? What is Hindu about this action? I just see pure arrogance. And nothing else. And that is what we are fighting in Kerala. Friends on the left, they are no different. They do the same division that the BJP does. The same exact hatred they divide society in exactly the same way. It's interesting to me that the Prime Minister spends every single day saying Congress is free. I have never heard the Prime Minister say, CPM, Left Front Mukh Bharat or CPM, Left Front Mukh Kerala. And in every single government where BJP is not present, the Prime Minister uses the CBI and the ED to overthrow the government, to attack the government, all day long. I want to understand why they are not doing that to the Left Front. It's a mystery to me. The whole state knows about it. I don't expect the Left Front to investigate it. Why should they? They are the culprits. But ask yourself why the BJP is not investigated. Because the BJP has only one goal. Elimination of the Congress. Now let me tell you what the Congress is. Congress is not just an organization. I said to you earlier, Kerala is not a state. It is an idea. And Congress is not an organization. It is an idea. And the BJP is not worried about the organization. They are worried about the idea. And the idea is very simple. The idea is togetherness. Sameness. Respect. Affection. This is the idea. The Congress only develops, the Congress only builds on top of this idea. And I have come to you to say that the idea of Kerala and the idea of Congress share many things. Mutual respect. Affection. Weatherness. Conversation. Belief in other people. And what the doctor told me in the Middle East. The ability to see someone else's pain. The BJP and the RSS knows that the day there is togetherness, affection and the ability to see each other's pain, the BJP and the RSS are gone. BJP and the RSS know each other very well. Brothers and sisters, they don't have a problem with the left. Because the left is based on the same idea as them. Hatred, division and the inner beauty to see another human being's pain. You can see, you will never ever find a Congress UDF Chief Minister who will have in front of the Secretariat, Keralite youngsters lying down begging for a job and not meet them. If Congress UDF Chief Minister comes to Kerala, he will resign before he does that. And not because of politics, but because he understands the pain that those students are going through. He understands that this poor student has spent his entire life trying to get a job. And when the time to get a job comes, the job goes to someone in the left front because he is in the left front. The UDF Chief Minister has the same spirit as the nurse in the Middle East. He understands the humiliation that that boy or girl is feeling. He understands the pain the mother of that child is feeling. The left front does not understand that. And that is why the Chief Minister can just walk right past those youngsters. One of our candidates in this election, she used to be a soldier of the left front. Her husband was a soldier of the left front. They didn't agree with the left front. The husband who was murdered, 52 pieces, no congressman, no congress worker could ever do such an act. He will die before he does that. He will get cut into 52 pieces before he does that. That is your state's tradition, completely refusing to accept injustice. Now let us talk about your future. What is the biggest problem in Kerala today? It is reflected in those boys in front of the secretariat. Those boys, there were 15-20 of them. But millions of Keralites would want to go and lie down over there. They represent the aspirations of Kerala's youngsters. An aspiration that has been smashed at the national level by the BJP and RSS and at the state level by the CPM. The BJP has destroyed India's big strength economy. How dare they come here and ask you for votes? No, no, no, no. India has changed it into a dangerous system. We used to have 9% economic growth. Today, I came in an auto rickshaw. He is not able to make a livelihood. He says, all my money goes into paying for the fuel. I need to make 500 rupees a day. I can't do it. The BJP keeps raising the petrol price, diesel price, giving that money to their friends. How dare they come here and ask you for votes? So the biggest problems in Kerala are economy and jobs. Now the UDF has come with a proposal. The proposal is called Nyaay. Please understand. There is a reason. I'll tell you something. The UDF already is going to form the government. It is already done. This drama that is going on, this is finished. And there is a reason. Because Kerala is going to show the way forward to the whole of India. It's a sad day. But Kerala is going to explain to India what India is. And Kerala is going to be the first state in India that is not going to have a single poor person after the UDF government comes to power. Not one. And there is a reason Nyaay is coming to Kerala. Because it has to go from Kerala to the rest of India. And you take it from me. The UDF is coming to power and Nyaay is going to happen here. And then from here it is going to every single state. Every single month, 72,000 rupees a year. Until that family is out of poverty. Now I spoke to you about the spirit of Kerala. I spoke to you about experience. I spoke to you about the 200 year old United States. Kerala does not give a solution to one problem. Kerala is intelligent enough to give a solution to multiple problems. Because you are not one idea. You have many different ideas. And you come together to solve problems. So today the economy is stuck. Today there are youngsters in front of the secretary. And today there are poor people in Kerala. Now I will explain to you what is going to happen the moment we do Nyaay. If the car needs petrol, it cannot work without petrol. You can do whatever you want. If there is no petrol in the car, it is not going to work. Fuel or petrol for the economy is money in people's hands. Today I sat in with an auto rickshaw driver. He has no money in his hands. His money goes into fuel, went away during demonetization, stolen by GST. That's why his money goes. And then from these instruments, it goes into the hands of two or three of Mr. Narendra Modi's friends. They buy airports, they buy infrastructure, they get into agriculture. They own the whole country. They buy from the airport, they buy from the distance. Now when we do Nyaay, that auto rickshaw driver will have money in his pocket. And when he has money in his pocket, he is going to spend that money. When he spends that money, he will buy things. When he buys things, shops will sell things. And when things are sold in the shop, factories will be forced to make things. And when factories are forced to make things, they will have to hire people to make those things. It will give millions of carolines jobs. It's a malayali solution. It's an intelligent solution. Now look at this, it doesn't harm anybody. Poor people get money, shopkeepers earn money, businesses earn money, government earns money because taxes will improve as the economy goes up. And this is what we are proposing to you. It's a malayali solution to the biggest problem facing trailer. You have given us this idea. And this idea is visible everywhere. In this land, and it's visible with the nurses in the Middle East. It is visible in the Middle East with millions of your brothers and sisters working as labourers. Now I want to ask you a question. We have come with a proposal with a solution. It's pretty clear that the biggest problems in Kerala are poverty, a bad economy and jobs. We have given you the amount of money that the solution is going to require. Now tell me what is the solution the BJP is proposing. And if they add a solution, what were they doing for the last 5 years? Why are those students lying in front of the secretariat? The answer is they don't have a solution. Their solution is to create hatred and anger in Kerala. They divide and they spread hatred. And India and Kerala can no longer afford it. And that is why you have to support our candidates and you have to make sure the UDF wins. Now I want to tell you something interesting. He is already winning the election. When I got the list of candidates who I was going to go to campaign for, there was only one person I said I have to go to campaign for. And that is this gentleman standing here. Please do not misunderstand. He is not just a congress organization candidate. He represents the idea of Kerala. He represents the unity of Kerala. He represents the spirit of the nurse who is trying to save the life of a person. Who is feeling the pain of another human being. And by the way this is a religious action. All religions say that feel the pain of another person. And he is not fighting two political organizations. He is fighting hatred. He is fighting division. He is fighting anger. And in Kerala he is never ever going to lose. I would like to thank all of you for coming here this evening. This is the last meeting of this campaign. And for me I have learned a lot from this campaign. I speak to you but more than speaking to you I learn from you. I met thousands of people in this campaign. My hand is cut over here. Fingers are scratched. But this is affection. And it is the same affection I feel for you. And the more time I spend as an MP in this state with this wonderful idea of yours. The more humble I become. The more I realize there is so much to learn about this great place. So I thank you for that very much. Namaskar. Finally SS Lal Ji who is a medical doctor and has the same spirit as the nurses in the Middle East. I am sure. Thank you very much.