 Mohindar Ji, dignitaries on the dais, friends, IOC members, brothers and sisters, friends from the media, thank you all for coming here today. It's been a fantastic visit. It's been fantastic because of the love and affection that the Indian community has shown to us over the last five or six days. It makes me very, very proud when I come here and I see all of you representing our country. It makes me proud because of the way you have behaved, the humility that you have shown, the acceptance that has been given to you. You didn't come here, any of you, none of you came here arrogantly. You came here with limited means and you built something fantastic, something wonderful. And all of you have different journeys, none more or less important than the other. The other thing that you did was accepted the culture of the United States, the language of the United States, the history of the United States, the diverse religions of the United States. You did not come here and fight or abuse the culture, the religion, the history of the United States. So for us, you and millions of you, millions like you, are ambassadors, people who represent our country, and people who represent a particular view of our country. Because as you know, there is a fight going on back home. A fight between two ideologies, one that we represent and the other of course that the BJP and the RSS represents. I think the simplest way to describe this fight is on one side you have Mahatma Gandhi and on the other side, you have Nathuram Goetze. That's the best, most precise way, most precise way that I can say it. On one side, a brave man, NRI like you, in fact probably the most impactful NRI that India has had in many, many years. Humble man, simple man, but a man who believed in the future, who believed in India, propagated non-violence and searched for the truth. That's the ideology that we follow, that's the ideology that all of you follow in this room. And then on the other side, Nathuram Goetze, violent, angry, unable to face the reality of his own life. You see, the reason he shot Gandhi was that he could not face his own life. And so he had to take his anger out on somebody and he chose to take his anger out on the essence, on the man who represented the essence of India. So that is the fight. Gandhi was forward looking, modern, open-minded, Goetze only spoke of the past. He never spoke of the future, only spoke of the past. He was angry, hateful and frankly he was scared. At his heart, he was a coward. And he was unable to deal with his life. On the other hand, Gandhi faced the biggest force on the planet, the superpower, more powerful than the United States is today. And he faced it because he followed the truth and he was humble. And you're all following in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, Ambedkar Ji, Sardar Patel Ji, Jawaharlal Nehru. This is who you learn from and this is who you represent. And I can go back in history. If we want to talk about humility, I can go back. I don't need to stop at Mahatma Gandhi because Mahatma Gandhi also learned from some other people. It is not that Mahatma Gandhi Ji was the person who invented this. Before Mahatma Gandhi, if their friends here from Karnataka, there's Basavana. If their friends here from Kerala, there's Narayana Guru. If their friends here from Punjab, there's Guru Nanak Ji, there's Buddha, there's a list of people. I mentioned Dr. Ambedkar, Jai Bhim. And so there's a long list and if you look at the essence of all these people, you take any one of them, you take Ambedkar Ji, you take Mahatma Gandhi, you take Guru Nanak Ji, all the giants that have emerged from India. You can see that there are certain qualities that all of them have. First of all, and most important, they search for and represent and fight for the truth. Ambedkar Ji fought for the truth of what Dalits in India were facing. And the second thing is all these people are humble. There is no arrogance to be found in these people. And that is how you have worked in the United States. That's why you're successful. Everybody says, oh, the Indian community is so successful. Indian community is so intelligent. No. The reason the Indian community is successful here is because the Indian community has respected the United States, the people of the United States, the customs of the United States and has embraced them. You have embraced the United States. You've embraced the people of the United States. That is the heart of your success. So I commend you for that. I respect you for that and I honor you for that. Now, back home we have a problem. And I will tell you the problem. Simple, BJP and the RSS are incapable of looking at the future. They are incapable. You can ask them anything. Ask them. Why did the train accident happen? Look, Congress did this 50 years ago. Why did you remove the periodic table evolution from textbooks? Congress Party did this 60 years ago. It is an immediate response. Now, you think about it. All of you came here by car using your cars. Imagine if the only thing you did was look in the rear view mirror. 14 hours when you were driving the car, you looked at the rear view mirror. Could you drive your car? You'd be having one accident after the other. The passenger would be saying, what are you doing? That is the phenomena of Narendra Modi. He is trying to drive the car, the Indian car, and he only looks in the rear view mirror. And then he does not understand why this car is crashing, not moving forward. And it's the same idea with the BJP, with the RSS. All of them. You listen to them. You listen to their ministers. You listen to the Prime Minister. You will never find them talking about the future. They will only talk about the past. And they will always blame somebody else for the past. So, I remember a train accident when the Congress Party was in power. The Congress Party did not get up and say, now it is the fault of the British that the train has crashed. No, the Congress Minister, I remember, said, it is my responsibility that the train has crashed. I am resigning. So, this is the problem that we have back home. That we make excuses, and we are not accepting the reality that we are faced with. The reality that we are faced with is our unemployment numbers and the fact that we need to make sure that all our youngsters are productive and get a job. And I believe, and one of the reasons I have come here is because I believe that if we want to build an India where the vast majority of our youngsters are employed, one of the things we have to think about is the bridge between India and the United States. What does it look like? What does our partnership focus on? And how do we compete with the challenge the Chinese have placed on the table? What is our view on the revolution in mobility? What is our view on the revolution on data and connectivity? And what is our view on the transformation that is taking place in the energy system of the world? These are the things that we should be discussing. And this is what? Namaskar. Have a nice day. So, this is the Congress Party's power. This is Congress Party's power. We are ready to. We are not being violent. We are not being aggressive. Right? We are not being nasty. That is our strength. Am I not right? Did we shout at him and say, No. No, we didn't. We will not change our behavior. We will not change our behavior. Because the thing is you cannot, please understand, you cannot cut hatred with hatred. It is impossible. It is impossible to do. I am not interested in trying to cut hatred with hatred. I said, in the market of hatred, there is a shop of love. Your work is to spread hatred. Our work is to spread love. We will not do your work for you. We will do our work. So, that is what we have to work on. There is a challenge in India. There is an attack on the democratic structure of our country. Full-scale attack on our institutions, on our judiciary, on our media. And it is your responsibility and our responsibility to defend the idea of India. And the idea of India, the central piece of the idea of India, is our constitution and our democracy. Modern India cannot exist without our constitution and without our democracy. So, what excites me in this type of a meeting, that I come here and I see people, thousands and thousands of people, who believe in the idea of India, who believe in the democratic principles of our country, who believe in the constitution, who believe that we should be affectionate to each other, that we should love each other. And I must tell you, it gives me tremendous strength. Tremendous strength when I see you. And I see the way you behave and I see the way you act. Because in each of your hearts, there is India. You roam for 24 hours. You roam for 24 hours for India in your heart. Right? And which India do you roam for? The one who loves each other. The one who respects each other, the one who helps each other, the one who hugs each other, you roam for 24 hours. I have seen it. I have seen it on this trip. You see a person from another culture. You will help them immediately. You will not ask, okay, what religion are you? What community are you from? What are you wearing? No. You will say, if you need my help, I don't care which religion you are from. I am Indian and I am going to help you. To be nasty to people, to be arrogant, to be violent, these are not Indian values. They are simply not Indian values. If they were Indian values, why would we be celebrating Mahatma Gandhi, Guru Nanak, Ambedkar, Basavana, Narayana Guru, why? Because they represented the values that we appreciate. We celebrate them because we believe in what they said. And so this is a new fashion that has come, that to express Indianness, you have to be hateful. To express Indianness, you have to be abusive. To express Indianness, you have to beat people. No, that's not Indianness. That's something else. And we refuse to accept that as Indian. So that's the message I want to leave you with. I have one thing, Sam, that I was thinking. Now, I've come to New York, we were in California, but there's a lot of diaspora people living in different parts of the United States. And I think the next time I come, you must take me to some other cities. You know? Maybe Chicago, Dallas, Atlanta. Yeah. Because my intention, my intention is to build a relationship with you. My intention is to have a relationship with you, a affectionate, loving relationship with you, where you can say to me that, Raul, this is what we think. Raul, this is how you should think about the relationship with the United States. This is what is important. This is what we need to focus on. I'm not interested so much in telling you what I believe. I don't want to do monkey bath over here. I'm interested in your mind. I'm interested, not in looking at the rear view mirror, but looking in front and saying, brothers and sisters, how do we move forward effectively? And how as a country, do we spread affection, love and affection? How are we kind to people? That's what I'm interested in. And that's the knowledge that you have. There's huge talent in all of you today. Just in the last meeting, a young girl came up to me and she said, Raulji, there's so much I want to do for my country. I'm a Stanford graduate. But you know, I don't like the atmosphere back home. I don't like the anger, the hatred that has been spread back home. I'm concerned about going back as a young girl. That's not the India we want. The India we want is where this young lady says, I want to go back home because there's love, affection, peace, harmony in my country. And the talent, look, the central architect. The central architect of modern India was an NRI. Mahatma Gandhi was an NRI. The freedom movement of India. We might not like to say this. The freedom movement of India began in South Africa. And you can see all our leaders in the freedom movement. My great grandfather, Nehruji NRI, Ambedkarji NRI, Sardar Patel NRI, Subash Chandra Bose NRI, all of them NRIs. And people who had an open mind to the outside world, who came to England in those days, came to America and said, these are interesting ideas we need to take back home. So that's what I expect from you. You are the, I would say, the next generation, future generation Mahatma Gandhi's. Future generation Ambedkar's. Future generation Sardar Patel's. And your role is to take your talent, immense talent. Maybe sometimes my criticism of you might be that you even underestimate what talent you have. Maybe that I can say that you don't even understand the level of talent that you have and the capability that you have. And that is what you have to bring to play. You can do it in America. You can do it back home. You can do it building a bridge between America and India. So that is what I wanted to tell you. I'm at your service. I love all of you. I love all of you. I love what you do. I... Yeah. Can I ask you a question? I want to ask you a small question. Have you ever heard of me in a BJP meeting? Have you ever heard of me? Congress people talk to each other. I love you. I love you brother. I love you brother. So this is India. The shop of love in the market of hatred. Thank you.