 There used to be unity. There used to be a sense of confidence. There used to be a sense of vision in which India was hitting. Rest of the world used to notice this. I remember many times people used to come from outside and they used to ask me what is the secret to success of India. People would come from Europe and they would say we don't understand how a country with as many languages as Europe country with completely different cultures, different ideas, how can you live peacefully? They used to say it took us two world wars to understand that we should not fight. They used to say it took us two world wars to understand that we should not fight. 50 million, 60 million people died. And in India, no world war, no nothing, you people all live together. They used to be surprised. They used to ask me. I could tell them asking me to try and understand how to do this. Like when someone looks at a magic show, he can't understand what is going on and he is asking how do you do that. And I used to say yes, this is our way of life, this is our culture, this is our tradition. This is our culture, this is our tradition. Your coastal area here, you are a nation, tourism is central for your future. Tourism is a important source of your wealth. Those same people who used to come to me and used to ask me how does India succeed. Today, ask me what has gone wrong with your country. Why are you killing each other? Why is there so much violence against women? Where does all this hatred come from? And most important question for you is it safe to visit India? Do you think we should go or not? What has happened to Indian democracy? Some foreign institutions now are saying India is not a democratic country. And as a proud Indian, I cannot deny it. I cannot say to them you are talking rubbish. Keep quiet. I have to keep quiet. I can say like I did when they made these comments that who are they to tell us. Defensively I can say. After all, I am Indian and I don't like it. But it is the truth. I cannot deny it. So I have to keep quiet. And watch as people who used to care for each other, who had affection for each other, abused each other, shouted each other, beat each other. This type of thing makes our Prime Minister proud. It makes the RSS, BJP proud. It makes them happy. But it makes me sad. Because I know that my country is being weakened. I know that each time I read in the newspaper one Indian killed another Indian. That some tourist somewhere is going to look and say, you know what, I won't go to Kerala. I will go to South America. When we read the newspapers like this, we see that there is no one or the other person in the country. When we go abroad to Kerala, we see that there is no one or the other person in the country. Because silently the person who used to benefit from that tourism, maybe the person who used to work in the hotel, or maybe the person who used to cook in a home stage is going to suffer. Because it is never the people who do the divining that suffer. It is always the people who are divided that suffer. And I like to see these things closely. I like to understand them in little bit of detail. Some weeks back I went in the morning fishing with my brothers. Today I was watching on the street as other brothers were selling fish. Before I went on the boat, when I used to look at people selling fish, I didn't understand it. In fact I can tell you standing from this stage that before I went on the boat, I used to defend fisherman's rights. But I didn't actually know what was going on. And of course just by going on the boat once with them, it's not that I have understood what is going on. But I understand slightly better. So let me tell you little bit about what happened when I went. We got up in the morning, 4 o'clock in the morning, we got on the boat. Very nice, calm sea. Then I thought to myself, what must it be like when the sea is not calm. What must the son of the daughter of the person who is going into the sea when it's not calm think. Or maybe what will the fisherman think when he is going into a rough sea thinking maybe I won't come back and I won't be able to educate my children and they will grow up without a father. Then I said to myself, then I am telling you what is going on in my mind. Then I said to myself, but everybody takes risks. So I justified. Then we went further and then they started to throw the net out. 500 meters they went round in one step. Then I thought ok, interesting. Now we are going to catch some fish. Till now I understood anything. I am just looking. Now we put the net in the water and the boat goes round 500 meters. The net goes and makes one full circle. And then they say ok now let us start pulling the net. Now I do weightlifting. I am a strong fellow. I eat many more calories than my brothers. Five minutes of pulling that net I understood what it means to weightlifters. I was like no problem I will pull this no problem. I kept pulling it five minutes six minutes seven minutes then I started to look at them. I did the net. I did the net. I did not manage to do it. I did not manage to do it for five or six minutes. After five or six minutes I looked in the other person's mind. I was smiling outside. I was looking at them. They were also smiling. Difference was they were smiling inside. I was not smiling inside. Because I understood what they are lifting. Then you know how you do. When you get slightly tired you pretend. Instead of pulling with full force slightly less force. I need to make it efficient. I need to now. I realize I have to make it go on for some time. But then I was thinking to myself my god this is very difficult work. Then the net becomes smaller and smaller and smaller. Then I thought to myself ok now the work is done. It is hard work. No problem. But it is done. It is difficult work. But it is done. Then the net starts to come up. Now I am imagining hundreds of fish inside that net. I thought three hours of the work would be enough to make it bigger. Fifteen, twenty fishmen pulling the net. Fifteen, twenty fishmen pulling the net. I thought atleast a couple thousand fish would come. I thought a few thousand. Then the net comes up. One fish. So another net to check the fishmen is still smiling. That is the fishmen's plight in Canada. This is the life of a fisherman. Whether you are crying inside, burning inside, dying inside, you have to smile. No matter what happens, no matter what happens, no matter what happens, no matter what happens, no matter what happens, you have to smile. Doesn't matter if you put fuel, boat, whatever you did, your entire energy, whatever you put inside it, doesn't matter, you have to smile. Now I came back. I did one day. You imagine, they do ten years, twenty years, thirty years. No idea whether they will come back. No idea whether they will be fishing the net. And then while they are doing this, the chief minister is making a deal. Before I went fishing, I would think to myself, ok, so he's making a deal. After going in the boat, it makes me angry. Because he is stabbing every one of those fishermen in the back. There is no blood coming out. Because the blood is going to come out later. That is happening everywhere. It is very obvious with the fishermen. Similar with the farmers. Similar with the artisans. People are working in tourism. It is the same thing. When these people get up in the morning, they don't go fishing. They put all their effort into it. Then they get nothing. And this is what I don't like about what is going on in India. You make three farm laws as if they have nothing. As if you have passed something in the parliament. Because you never put the net. Because you never put the net. You never put the net. You never spoken to the farmer when he is digging his field. Go, do it. And your heart will change. And then the whole day, make in India. What is making India? The phone is made in China. The shoes are made in China. The net. And our Prime Minister keeps going. Make in India. And then everything he gives to his two friends. So you have a legitimate question to ask me. You can say, what are you, what is the UDF going to do? To me it is very simple. The economy has stopped. There are no jobs. And this is across the country. Let us forget why it happened. It happened because of demonetization. It happened because of GST. It happened because of corona. Forget it. Forget it. We will forget the mistakes. Tell us what you are going to do going forward. Tell us how you are going to start the Indian economy, the Kerala economy. Tell us how you are going to tell that tourist that he should not be worried and should come here. And it is very simple. And we have been saying it to the state government and to the government of India. We have been saying it to the state government and to the government of India. Trust your own people and put money in their hands. You trust the two biggest businessmen in this country. Start to trust the crores and crores of people of this country. Trust your own people and put money in their hands. Start to trust the crores and crores of people of this country. Start to trust the crores and crores of people of this country. There is a car standing here. Can this car work without petrol? Can this car work without petrol? The chief minister is sitting in the car. There is no petrol in the car. Nobody has money and he keeps turning the key. How is the car going to start without petrol? Put money into people's hands. Put petrol into the economy. Put money into people's hands. Like you jump start the car. Jump start the Indian economy. So what is the congress answer? First thing we will do to start the economy of Kerala. 6000 rupees for every single household in Kerala in their bank account. 6000 rupees every month. And this is not charity that we are doing. Don't think we are doing you some favor. We are putting petrol in the car. We are going to do welfare pension, raise it to 3000 rupees a month. Right to income for home makers between 1460 and 2000 rupees a month. And we are going to ensure a minimum support price for rubber coconut and curry. And we are doing it because we know the moment we put money in your bank account, the moment we put money in your hands, you will spend it. And the moment you spend it, you will need to buy things with it. And when you buy things with it, people will need to produce those things. And when people need to produce them, they will have to find people who will do the job of producing them. So we understand that when we put money in your hands, we will create jobs. Don't think that violence does not have an effect. I showed you, I told you that tourism is impacted with violence. Tourist sitting in Europe or in America is not interested in going to a violent place. He is scared, he is saying God knows what will happen, I might get killed. Like an economy, tourism also needs harmony. People like to visit places which are full of love and affection. Nobody wants to go somewhere where there is anger, hatred and violence. And no matter what the left says and no matter what the BJP RSS says, they are ideologies of violence. They are ideologies of division. We are not interested in division. We are ideologies of multiplication. We multiply the power of this country. We multiply the affection among our people. We bring people together. That is the difference between the UDF and the LDF and the RSS. I went to a girls college today. Brilliant girls, intelligent, dynamic, everything they have. Some weeks back I went to the assembly. In front of the assembly there were those students lying there. They were lying there covered in shrouds as if they were dead. What they were trying to tell the people of Kerala is that we have no future, we are dead. After all somebody who does not have a future is dead. So they were saying to the Chief Minister of Kerala, to the leadership of Kerala, by lying in front of his office that they are dying. They were saying we are dying because your organization is taking what belongs to us. Like the girls in the college they were capable young men. Now the Chief Minister, the minimum he should have done is gone out and met them. Go on to them and say, my brother don't worry, I understand what you are feeling, I will try and do something about it. They are 50 meters ahead of his office, they are right there, he can see that, he drives faster. But he didn't say a word to them. Why? Because they are correct, he can't go and say a word to them. Because you understand that his organization is stealing their future from them. He understands that he himself has given some of those jobs to his people instead of these people who deserve it. And that's why he can't go. It's the same with the President, he has to do the deal behind their back. It's very difficult to betray someone by looking them in the eye. That specialization of course belongs to our Prime Minister. He has no problem, he has been trained from before. So that is why I have come here to tell you to support these two candidates. To bring harmony to this state, to carry everybody in this state as one. And to make this state progress and show the rest of the country what Kerala is capable of doing. It's night time, so I'd like to thank all of you for coming here and listening to me. Especially the little children. Thank you very much. Namaskar.