 I'd like to welcome all of you here today. You are aware of the situation in the country today, a country that used to be united, confident, working together, is today angry, divided and fighting amongst itself. We are all aware of the situation in the country today, a country that used to be united, confident, working together, is today angry, divided and fighting amongst itself. What used to be our strength, the harmony in our complex country, is now our weakness. Political leaders going and dividing. Dividing the nation into myself and everybody else. My community against everybody else. My tradition against everybody else. Seven or eight years ago, the whole world was talking about India in its programs. What is the legacy behind India? How do all of you work together, different languages, different cultures, different histories, different ideas? How does your economy grow so fast? And today the same people come and ask me what has gone wrong. Some investors came to see me some time back. And in the conversation I asked them what do they think. And they said to me, Mr. Dandi, we are not foolish. If Indian people themselves are not investing in India, why should we invest? So what used to be our strength has suddenly become our biggest weakness. We have a Prime Minister who keeps talking about making India. And the world loves it. Because they can see that he is the person who is dividing India so that it will never be able to make anything. International institutions are saying India is no longer a democracy. I didn't imagine that I would see this day. That foreign institution is calling my country not a democracy. And I have to keep quiet. Because it is true. So for all those people who ask the question why is India unable to provide jobs for its youngsters? Why is the Indian economy not growing? I'll give you the answer. For our own state but we are not working for India. Because working for India means also working for the person who is standing in front of us. So today I go to a college, I speak to hundreds of girls, cannot with confidence tell them that you will get a job. I am scared to ask them the question, do you think you will get a job? Because I suspect the answer they will give me. I don't want them to see their reality. The reality being that they are highly educated young women, highly intelligent, highly capable and their country and their state cannot promise them a future. When we were in power in the UDF here and in the UPA in Delhi, we understood how to run the economy. Economists write long theories on this but it is actually very simple. First thing you need is harmony. Second thing you need is to put money into people's hands. Those two things happen in India's economy will grow. The Prime Minister did demonetization, he applied a flawed GST and then corona struck. We told the government put money into people's hands immediately. Because the economic engine needs to be started quickly. They did nothing. We did money into people's hands and the economy started working. We do right to food economy starts working. We did farm loan waiver economy starts working. Logic is very simple. It's not complex. If you put money into a poor person's hand, that poor person will go and buy something. If he goes and buys something, someone will need to produce that thing. We know that it's a crime to put money into a poor person's hand. If somebody starts to produce that thing, the factory will need people to do the job. And employment will start happening. So the first thing we are going to do when we come to power in Kerala is Naiyoja. And don't be confused that we are doing this as some form of charity. This is not charity. We are giving you money through the Naiyojna so the economy starts working. We are putting money in your pocket so that you can spend the money. It's like jump starting a car. You have to put fuel into the engine before the car can start. Right now the chief minister is sitting in a car. There is no fuel in the car and he keeps turning the key. He keeps turning the key. He won't put fuel in the car. The left people take time to learn these things. Maybe after another 20-30 years they will understand. But that is not the only money we are going to put in your hands. We will raise the welfare pension to 3000 rupees a month. And we will give a right to income for home makers between 40 and 60 of rupees 2000 a month. And most important we will ensure minimum support price for rubber, coconut and paddy. And please understand the logic because the moment we give this money to you, you will start spending this money. And the moment you start spending the money, jobs will be created automatically. Today I was driving and I saw a lot of people selling fish on the side of the road. And I was wondering what would happen if the deal that the Kerala government was doing with that American company to make trawlers would have gone through. What would happen if that lie had not been caught? What would have happened if that betrayal had not been caught? Thousands and thousands of our fishermen brothers and sisters, thousands and thousands of people selling those fish could have been out of business. That deal shows the intention of the left front government. And after they got caught, they said okay, we will cancel the deal. It's like a thief comes to your house, he's carrying away your television, you catch him and then he says no, no, I'll leave it here. So that is the style and the intention. And what the left front does here, the Prime Minister does in Delhi. So the style is very simple, divides society and then hand what belongs to the society to other people. This election, our ticket selection has been different. We have given you many, many young candidates. A silent revolution in the Congress party and the UDF. We have not ignored experience. So we have many, many excellent older leaders. So we have not ignored them but we have opened the door for younger faces. There is a reason for this. Because we want to transform the conversation that is taking place in Kerala. We want a new imagination for Kerala going forward. We are showing that we are not happy with the way politics is working in Kerala. We are injecting new blood into the system. And you will see this effect on the Vidhan Sabha and on the laws that are passed when the UDF comes to power. And I want to tell you it is a bold step for a political party today. And we are doing it because we believe in you. Here we have Shanimal Usman and Sarath. And I know both of them and I am confident that they will work in your interest honestly with dedication. Without taking a step back with honesty, humility and respect.