 one more thing. We have a list of people who will be asking you questions. This list was given to us by the village heads, people who brought them here. They have nominated one representative to speak on behalf of them. Their names will be called out and they will rise up and they will ask their questions and then I will be translating the question into English for you and what you say will be translated into Tamil by Imranji. So thank you very much for coming here. Thank you very much for coming here. It's an honor for me to be here, to listen to your opinions, to listen to your thoughts and to answer some of your questions. Many people, when they look at India's farmers or they look at India's weavers, they look at India's workers, they see weakness. But when I look at India's farmers, India's laborers, India's weavers, I see India's true strength. In fact, I am one of those people who believes that to make something strong, you have to work on the foundation. You cannot make something strong, you cannot make a building strong if you do not have a strong foundation, if you do not have strong walls. And I think the people, the laborers, the farmers who work with their hands, the skilled people, I think these are the foundation and the walls of any building that we are going to build. And I also think that India owes to the laborers who work with their hands and I think that India owes a debt to its farmers, to its laborers, to its weavers, because these are the people who have built this nation. So when we think of farmers, laborers, weavers, we have to think that as a nation, we owe them a debt of gratitude. The weavers, the farmers, the laborers did not sell this country to the British, did not sell this country to the British, did not sell this country to the British, did not sell the laborers, did not sell this country to the British, did not sell this country to the British. Many Indians sold India to the British, but the labourers, farmers, poor people, weak people did not sell. So that is why I am here to talk to you today, not as someone who is going to tell you what you have to do, but as someone who wants to listen to your views on the future of this country. Of course, I have some opinions and some views of my own which I would like to share with you as well. So now, please, I will give the floor to you. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. I am going to just say the gist of what he said. He is welcoming you on behalf of all the weavers who have assembled here. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. Thank you, sir. I am going to translate the gist of what he said to you. So we moved from handloom to power looms and now we are moving towards auto looms. When your father, late Rajiv Gandhi was the Prime Minister, he gave special protection for the handloom sector when the transition from handlooms to power looms took place. Now the transition is from power looms to auto looms because of which the rate at which the auto looms produce fabric, the power looms are not able to match to that speed. Number two, they don't do any value-added products. They produce the same fabric and this has also caused a lot of unemployment. So we request that similar to what was done during Rajiv Gandhi's period, we request that protection be given to the power looms sector. During Rajiv Gandhi's period, certain types of fabrics, for example, the Zari work could be done only by handloom. Similarly, we want certain types of protection to be given for the power looms sector. Certain types of fabrics should be produced only through the power looms sector. That is his request. That sounds like a good suggestion. Thank you, sir. So, you must have noticed that today the Chinese army is occupying Indian territory. You must have read it in the newspapers. And many people say that Bangladesh is competing very strongly in the textile business. Now, one has to ask the question, why does China think it has the guts to come inside our territory? What has given China the confidence to come inside the territory of a country like India? You might think, why is Rahul Gandhi raising China inside our territory when he is speaking to weavers? They can see today that India is weak. You saw yourself that the Prime Minister of India does not have the courage to say the words China. You look at his speeches for the last three, four months. He does not say China. China is sitting inside India. Now, there is a reason. China has understood that India's economy is on its knees. India's economy is on its knees. China can see that every single action of the Indian government is designed to strengthen five or six big business people and weaken India's real strength, the laborers, the workers and the weavers. I can guarantee you that if India's laborers, if India's farmers, if India's weavers were strong, were protected, were given opportunities, China would never dare to come inside India. I will go one step further. I can also guarantee you that if India's farmers, laborers, small and medium businesses were strong, then the Prime Minister, President of China would be wearing a shirt made in India. And I can guarantee you that Chinese people would be driving Indian cars. That Chinese people would be flying in Indian aeroplanes. That Chinese houses would have Indian carpets. Why is this not happening? Because our government is insisting on helping five, six of India's richest business people and killing and destroying India's true strength. You are using the Indian army, the Indian Navy, the Indian Air Force to protect India from China. If you use India's laborers, India's farmers, India's workers, you will not need the Army, Navy and Air Force to be standing over there. China will not have the guts to come inside. So, now let us discuss. The first anti-worker, anti-farmers action taken by Narendra Modi on purpose to weaken you was demonetization. The idea behind demonetization was that no poor man should be able to run his own business. The next action against our farmers, laborers, weavers was GST. Make GST so complicated, so difficult that no poor man can understand it, can work with it. When COVID happens, the BJP government forgives loans of the richest people in India, lakhs of crores. I want to know how many weavers, how many laborers, how many farmers loan was waived? Not one person, not one poor man's loan was waived and the richest people in India their loans are being waived every day. Why? What have they done that you have not done? Okay, if you are using the telephone of their company, they are wearing the shirt you have made. They are eating the food made by farmers. They are eating the food produced by farmers. They are living in buildings built by laborers. So why should they be treated differently and we be treated differently? So this is what we have to change. Of course the question is correct. We need protection. We need our protection of power looms. But I don't think that is enough. You don't need just protection. You need support. We need to see you as a asset, as a strength, not as a weakness. Why is it that in a meeting of big business people, nobody says we need protection? Why is it that in a meeting of farmers people say we need protection? In a meeting of laborers people say we need protection. Weavers people say we need protection. Why? So we need a transformation in the way we are thinking. Our farmers, laborers, weavers should feel that the country is indebted to them, that the country owes them something. Because that is the truth. It is our country. It is our country. It is our country. It is our country. Thank you. We go to the second question. Thank you very much, sir. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And we did not want to make a half solution. We wanted to make a full solution. So, she never has to ask this question again. The idea was called justice. And the idea was that the government of India would guarantee a certain minimum amount of money directly into the bank accounts of all India's poor people. The idea was that the government of India would guarantee a certain minimum amount of money directly into the bank accounts of all India's poor people. Meaning, every month, directly in our bank account, the government of India would give her money. The idea was that the government of India would guarantee a certain minimum amount of money directly into the bank accounts of all India's poor people. I will give you one little piece of information. Do you know that Mr. Narendra Modi has given the 15 biggest businesses in India a gift of almost 10 lakh crores? So, I asked the question before the last election. If Mr. Narendra Modi can give a gift of 10 lakh crores to 15 people, why can't we give a gift to millions of people? And we came up with a number. And we came up with a number. And the number was that the Indian government would give every single poor family in India 72,000 rupees a year directly into the bank account. And this would happen again and again and again and again until that person was out of poverty. And this was our commitment in the last election. What is the idea? The idea is that if we are able to help her by creating a financial floor under her, then she can grow. So that was one of the ideas that we had. And I think it is a very, very powerful idea. And when the Congress party comes to power at the national level, we are going to implement this idea and we are going to make sure that the poorest people who we owe a debt to are repaid for the service that they have done to this country. Imagine the poorest person. The poorest family in India will have 72,000 rupees a year in their bank account. Every year. So I am telling you this because there is confusion among the people in India. India is not a poor country. India's people are poor. There is no shortage of money in this country. The problem is the money is not distributed properly. And if she can send me some of the things that she makes, then I will try and see if I can help her. So we can solve her problem. So that we can solve her personal problem. Thank you. No that will take too long. Tell her that she should give me one right now because then I will help her. I will tell her I will show the people of Tamil Nadu what good Dharishi makes. And I will tell the people of Tamil Nadu, please look at the beautiful Dharishi she is making and help her. Because we have to make examples of people like her. We have to show what she is capable of doing to the rest of the world. Thank you. She said the women who are making it are not able to make any profit from this. They are actually suffering. The business has become unviable. But I said bring the mats. We will pass it on to our leader. And when he displays it to the world, it will become famous. You will become a representative for the entire world. And then you and then you with other women who are having the same issue, you work together to make these Dharis. Make it an example for Tamil Nadu. That we will no longer hide our things. We will show them to everybody. I will help my sister. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. The viscose fiber industry requires viscose fiber. And grass has complete monopoly over the viscose fiber material. Since they have the monopoly, they control the price. There is also something called anti-dumping duty which prevents viscose material from other countries. For example, Indonesia and Vietnam from entering our country. So since they have prevented such viscose from entering the country, because of this anti-dumping duty, the prices are kept high which is harmful to textile producers like him. You should speak on behalf of us to the central government and ask them to stop enforcing this anti-dumping duty on us. This company has a 100% monopoly. And there is no other way for you to get it. So that is catastrophic for the industry. I will raise it for you. I will raise it for you. I will raise it for you. I will raise it for you. I will raise it for you. We cannot commit our price to our buyers. So we have to have a set up. The yarn price should be stable. Or at least periodically, not every day. Ten years before it was like that, but recent days it is changing every day. Why is it changing every day? It is a shortage. In the middle of it, it is simple to see. I don't know what is the correct reason for this. But the government is not aware of this. The central government is not aware of this. They have approached the central government and state government but we didn't get any good answer from them. There are cartons available in the country. But again every day changes because some of them are reserving the carton so that the carton price can go up. We have to pay tax to the important people. What we have to do is, we have to pay tax to Karur MP Jyothi Mani. We have to pay tax to the MP Sindaraj. We have to pay tax to the MP Sindaraj. We have to pay tax to the MP Sindaraj. They have told us that they will not come again. But now they have come. Our leaders have gone to Delhi parliament to discuss the issue of our generation. There is a problem in the road. This is what I am saying. Already we gave a representation through the Karur MP, Namakal MP and Pallachi MP to the textile minister and also the finance minister. No action has been taken. So we request our leader to talk for us in the parliament. I will raise it for you. Another issue that he raised is the pollution caused by the dying industry, and how it is polluting all the water bodies because of which even the drinking water is becoming poisonous. So that is another issue he wanted to raise with you, sir. How much production does it do? How much money can it make? It will come around 30 metres. How much profit do you make? It is a traditional work only. We are selling it traditionally only. The price is not, we are not wages in the domestic market, in the commercial market. We do not get the best price for that. We want the handloom product as a handicraft as a traditional one and it is a precious one. Then only we get the price. We fix the wages for peace rate. We need the price for daily wages. If we fix, they earn only 200 rupees to 250, maximum 200 to 250 rupees per day. All other industry people are earning more than 500 to 600 to 700 rupees per day. So we do not compete with the power of other people and for the construction people. So we are not competing because it is a low production industry. You wanted to be a handicraft. A handicraft? Government only supports the price. You see, he is 82 years old. He is a member of the handloom industry. Still 82 years he is weaving. He is only earning 150 rupees. For their pension amount, they are getting only 1000 rupees per month for all government to pay, minimum 5000 rupees pension amount for the handloom workers. Then only their life after the retirement will be safe. Thank you very much. Do you want to respond? Sir, we will be happy. Sir, we will be happy if you can sit and we would like to take a photograph. Not only the real people, but also the real people. All the things that I am doing, are being carried out by the real people. Mr. Rahul Gandhi, the head of the respect for the people, we would like to thank them for their support. Everyone, please sit quietly. Let the next stage be the show. Thirukhandevel. Could you make it out sir? How long will they work for one day? Sir, 8 to 10 hours. She works for 8 to 10 hours a day. Thank you so much sir. From today, Mr. Rahul Gandhi is also a viewer of the great India. Please introduce yourself. Thiru Sundravel. Khandevel. Thirukhandevel. Greetings to all of you. I have come from the power loom association of Eero. We have come here to talk about the new minth. We have talked about the new minth. We have heard that the total power loom is set. We have come here to talk about the new minth. We have come here to talk about the new power scheme. We want complete exemption for the power loom sector from Power Tariff. The reason we want exemption from the Uday scheme is because the free units that we get, that is 750 units that we get, that will not exist anymore. If they implement the Uday power scheme, then the power sector will be completely privatized. We are operating like a cooperative. If we are treated like a corporate company, then we will not be able to manage, we will not exist. Now it is post paid connection, that is we pay after we use. Now if Uday scheme is implemented, it can become a pre paid scheme, which means we will not be able to gauge the cost of production. If Uday scheme is implemented, then we want single tariff across India for all weavers. Can he give me a note with these details? In Tamil Nadu, you are talking about how to implement the Uday power scheme in Tamil Nadu. We are talking about 31 MPs. We are talking about 33 MPs, we are talking about 33 MPs, we are talking about 33 MPs. We are talking about 38 MPs from your coalition to the parliament. So we request all of you to represent us in the parliament. We will raise these issues for you. Thank you sir. Now I would like to thank all of you. It has been a very nice experience for me coming here, listening to you, talking to you. I really appreciate you taking the time to come here. Thank you. Sir we have somebody from the silk weaving industry. Once again. I am very happy to see you here. Thank you. We have a silk weaver who is here. She has got something for you from her village. Welcome sir. This is a gift for your sister Priyanka ji. This has been opened by her. The saree has been opened by her. You have to pass it on to your sister. We are all grateful to you. We are all grateful to you. We, the Tamil people, we know how to thank our respected leader Rahul Gandhiji. Thank you very much sir. Thank you very much on behalf of the weavers of E-Road. An official word of thanks. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much for your love and thanks to all of you who are listening to Amar Mahar. No one should leave this place without any mercy. Give us some sugar. Give us some sugar. Have a seat. Amar Mahar, we are going to eat all of you.