LIVE: Special Congress Party Briefing by Shri @RahulGandhi

There is a tragedy unfolding in our country today, the Govt wants to ignore this tragedy, it wants to misinform people but the truth is that a huge tragedy is unfolding: Shri @RahulGandhi
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What we are seeing, in industry after industry be it airports, infrastructure, telecom, retail, across the board, what we are watching is the development of massive monopolies in this country. 3-4-5 people are now owning this country: Shri @RahulGandhi
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This country is now owned by a limited small group of people who I term as crony capitalists who have a close relationship with the PM and who provide the PM with media support: Shri @RahulGandhi
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Biggest business in India is agriculture, 60% of our people are in agriculture & in terms of value, agriculture is by far the biggest hit. Agriculture is not just what the farm grows, it's the machinery that moves that produce, the structure of how it is sold: Shri @RahulGandhi
The last bastion that was protected by monopoly is being overrun. 3 new laws have been passed, they are designed to destroy Indian agriculture, by destroying mandis, by destroying essential commodities act & by making sure that no Indian farmer can go to court: Shri @RahulGandhi
The country itself is not able to understand what is happening. The result of this is going to be 3-4 people are going to own entire agriculture system. Farmers will not get the value they deserve, mandi system will be destroyed: Shri @RahulGandhi #RahulGandhiWithFarmers
3-4 businessmen will be able to store millions and millions of tons of wheat, rice, other essential commodities and my friends in the middle class, you will be paying prices you have never imagined: Shri @RahulGandhi
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The rice, the wheat you buy comes to you at the rate it comes because of the APMC, so this is not an assault on the farmers, this is an assault on the middle class and every youngster that will not be able to find a job: Shri @RahulGandhi #RahulGandhiWithFarmers
This is what I want to tell youngsters, realise your independence is being taken away, realise this happened before and we fought this and everything that we have today is because of the fight that we fought and the exact same thing is happening to India, today: Shri @RahulGandhi
अगर आप पिछले 6-7 साल को देखें तो हर इंडस्ट्री में उन्हीं चार-पाँच लोगों का एकाधिकार बन रहा है। एयरपोर्ट या टेलीकॉम देखिए, जहां भी आप देखेंगे तो इन्हीं लोगों का एकाधिकार है : श्री @RahulGandhi
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इस देश के 4-5 नए मालिक है। आज तक खेती में एकाधिकार नहीं था। आज तक हिंदुस्तान के खेतों का फायदा किसानों, मजदूरों, मिडिल क्लास और गरीबों को जाता था : श्री @RahulGandhi
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कैसे एक पूरा ढांचा था जो इन लोगों की रक्षा करता था। उसमें मंडियाँ और आवश्यक वस्तु अधिनियम शामिल था, लीगल सिस्टम शामिल था। ये तीन कानून खेती में एक बार फिर से आज़ादी से पहले वाली हालत करने जा रहे हैं : श्री @RahulGandhi
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4-5 लोगों के हाथ में पूरे कृषि हिंदुस्तान की खेती का ढांचा नरेंद्र मोदी जी दे रहे हैं। इसलिए किसान बाहर सड़कों पर खड़े हैं : श्री @RahulGandhi
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हमारे मिडिल क्लास भाइयों और युवाओं को समझना होगा कि किसान अपनी रक्षा नहीं कर रहे हैं बल्कि वो आपकी और आपके भोजन की रक्षा कर रहे हैं : श्री @RahulGandhi
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हम सभी को किसानों को अपना पूरा का पूरा समर्थन देना है। ये हिंदुस्तान की सच्चाई है : श्री @RahulGandhi
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सरकार और उनका अहंकार समझता है कि किसानों को थकाया जा सकता है, उन्हें बेवकूफ बनाया जा सकता है। किसानों को ना तो थकाया जा सकता है, ना उन्हें बेवकूफ बनाया जा सकता है : श्री @RahulGandhi
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प्रधानमंत्री से ज्यादा समझ हिंदुस्तान के किसान को है कि क्या हो रहा है क्या नहीं हो रहा है। यही सच्चाई है और इसका एक ही उपाय है कि इन तीन काले क़ानूनों को वापस लेना पड़ेगा : श्री @RahulGandhi
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सरकार किसानों को भटकाने की कोशिश कर रही है। सरकार किसानों से कह रही है कि, बात करिए हमसे। 9-10 बार की बातचीत हो चुकी है लेकिन सरकार इसे घसीटते जा रही है : श्री @RahulGandhi
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Reporters, pundits, activists. Before you echo the notion that Palestinians are being "corralled into small, crowded enclaves", which is in vogue in some circles, here are some facts that you won't find in @btselem's new position paper. Read and decide for yourself.

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Starting with the West Bank, specifically Area C from which allegedly Palestinians are being systematically pushed into the enclaves of Areas A and B, and replaced by Jewish settlers. If so, we should've seen the demographic balance in Area C shift in the Jews' favor. Has it? /2

Well, there's no evidence for that, certainly none in the paper. Latest UN estimate is ~ 300k Palestinians in Area C in 2013, probably >3 times their number in 1995 when the area was delineated. Jewish population growth in the same area & period was slower or similar at 2.6%./3

While good population stats for Area C are unavailable, there are construction surveys based on aerial photos. Do they support Btselem's claim? Quite the contrary. At least one shows that in recent yrs the total Palestinian residential area expanded more than the Jewish one./4


The same analysis by @RegavimIsrael found that the number of Palestinian structures in Area C increased by 28,600 during 2009-2019, nearly doubling in one decade, far more than the 18,600 built in Jewish settlements in that period, according to official statistics. /5

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