 all the senior leaders on the dais, DCC presidents, Ruby Manoharanji, party workers and friends from the media, I would like to welcome all of you here today. I would like to welcome all of you here today, I would like to welcome all of you here today. I would like to congratulate Rubyji and his team for doing a tremendous job today. And the district president and the entire team I want to congratulate them for a job well done. For me, coming to Tamil Nadu is always a tremendous pleasure. It is difficult to explain it. I don't know what it is. But when I travel through the streets of Tamil Nadu, I feel a connection with the people of Tamil Nadu. I see sometimes I'm in the tour and I see some child smiling or I see one of my sisters or my mother smiling and automatically I feel happy inside. If Tamil Nadu smiles then it makes me smile. So it's simple. Instead of trying to make myself smile, all I have to do is make Tamil Nadu smile. And also the love and affection you show me, I come here and sometimes I think we have a long relationship. Maybe you are smiling at me or maybe I make you happy because of what my grandmother did or what my father did or the relationship they had with you. But I can say that I don't fully understand this connection. Maybe I was thinking about it. Maybe to understand the connection better I have to learn Tamil. I also come here and I reflect on your history. And as somebody who doesn't come from Tamil Nadu, I notice one thing immediately. I might meet the poorest person, the weakest person, the person in maximum distress but they never lose their dignity. They never lose their self-respect. Their situation might be terrible but they maintain their self-respect and dignity. This is something that I admire. And I don't know why I think this but I have a feeling that Tamil Nadu is going to show India the future direction. It's a feeling. I don't know what it is but I just feel that you can show the direction. What is this feeling based on? Number one, it is based on your spirit. Number two, it is based on the thousands and thousands of small and middle-sized businesses in this state. And I am convinced that if we are to take on the challenge of Chinese manufacturing, the answer has to be small and medium businesses. Today when we look at a mobile phone, when we look behind the mobile phone we find made in China. Behind the shirt made in China, underneath the shoe made in China, wherever you look, any single product it is made in China. We have millions of dynamic youngsters with unbelievable energy, with dreams and then we have unemployment. You can go to any state in India, you will find massive number of unemployed youngsters. Jobs is the central challenge for our country. And I am convinced that if we get the government of Tamil Nadu to work effectively behind this phone, we will find made in Tamil Nadu, made in India. Behind our shirts we will find made in Tamil Nadu, made in India. And when we walk on the streets of Tamil Nadu, we will find our youngsters employed. Now why is it that we are unable to do made in Tamil Nadu? I want to explain it to you very simply. The single most important reason is that the government in Delhi does not support small and medium businesses and does not support our farmers and our labourers. The two to three biggest businesses in the country can get any amount of money from India's banks. But the people who create our jobs, the small and medium businesses of Tamil Nadu cannot get a single rupee. In India, the big and small business owners can get millions of crores of loans. But the small and medium businesses of Tamil Nadu cannot get any amount of money. The job creation backbone does not get a rupee from the banking system. The small and medium businesses of Tamil Nadu cannot get a rupee from the banking system. Demonetization damaged our job creation system. It helped the richest in the land and destroyed lakhs and lakhs of small businesses. Five different GSTs, 28% tax did the same thing again. Big businesses can get as many accountants as they need. Small businesses cannot. Let us look at fuel prices, let us look at petrol prices. We talk about job creation. The government in Delhi takes your money from you every time you fill petrol in your motorcycle, in your car, in your scooter. Every time a farmer switches on a pump, the government in Delhi takes his money. Normally, you are supposed to tax the rich and support the poor. In India, they tax the poor and give to the rich. GST, demonetization, these are taxes on poor people. It does not matter what happens to the international fuel price, oil price, the price of diesel and petrol in India will keep going up. And with this type of situation, you can never create jobs. And now they are attacking the farmers with these three new bills. You see, you must see that I have no fear talking about the Prime Minister. He cannot scare me. In fact, the very idea of him scaring me is ridiculous. Now, you have to understand something. There is only one reason. Narendra Modi cannot frighten me. There is only one reason Narendra Modi cannot control me. And that is that I am not corrupt. And because I am not corrupt, I can stand against Narendra Modi and I can tell him the truth. It is the fact that I am not corrupt that makes me brave. And it is the fact that I am not corrupt that makes Narendra Modi attack me 24 hours of the day. Because inside his heart he knows that he is corrupt and he is facing an honest man. I fall asleep at night in 30 seconds. Because I am not scared of Mr. Modi. I want to ask you a question. How long does it take the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu to fall asleep at night? He cannot sleep at night because he is not honest. And because he is not honest, he cannot stand up against Narendra Modi. And Mr. Narendra Modi thinks that he can control the people of Tamil Nadu because the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu is corrupt. He thinks that Tamil Nadu is like his television. That he can pick up the remote control and do whatever he wants with Tamil Nadu. Meaning he thinks he can put the volume up and the Chief Minister will talk louder. He can put the volume down and the Chief Minister will go silent. The man is so delusional he thinks he can control the voice of Tamil Nadu through his remote control. The people of Tamil Nadu are going to take the battery out of that remote controller and throw it away. Nobody can control the destiny of Tamil Nadu other than the Tamil people. Unlike Mr. Modi, I have read your history. The only way to deal with Tamil Nadu is with love, respect and affection. And I wish the Prime Minister would understand this. If you give the people of Tamil Nadu this much respect, they will give you this much respect back. If you give them this much love and affection, they will give you this much love and affection back. And the only relationship I want to have with the people of Tamil Nadu is one of respect and one of love and affection. Because I understand that that is the only relationship that is possible. And I understand the graciousness and the large heartedness of the people of Tamil Nadu. And that is the relationship that we must share. It is an honor for me to talk to you this evening. And I am confident that together we will show a new direction, a new path to the people of Tamil Nadu. And we will use the full potential of the youth of this beautiful state. And we will be able to show a direction to the rest of the country. That is my dream and my hope. In conclusion it is always a pleasure for me to come here. And when I speak to you, I always learn something and go back. Every single time I come here, I go back with something that you gave me. How can I not be thankful to you? Today I will give you an example. Today I was talking to the people who work in the salt pan. Extremely poor people working for hours inside the salt water without shoes. Unable to make ends meet. I looked in that crowd, maybe 300 people, I looked in that crowd. I did not find one person who was not smiling. In the conversation, I asked one of the workers about salt and the work that he does. And I asked him if he feels he gets the right amount of money for the work he does. And I said to him that after coming to the salt pan, I realized that every day we are eating salt. But we are never thinking about the people who bring us the salt. And then he says to me, he says to me brother, do you know that the salt that we are collecting over here is helping fight corona? He says to me, do you know that the work that I am doing here collecting the salt, it goes into the medicine that is used to treat corona? He says to me, I am not only collecting salt, I am protecting the country from corona. That is the beauty of your state. Thank you very much Nandri. Thank you very much. Thank you very much.