Burn My Effigy, if You Hate Me: Modi

“If you want to burn Modi's effigy, do it.  But do not burn public property,” Prime Minister Narendra Modi tells anti-CAA protestors.

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00:00We have to burn Modi's statue. Burn it!

00:30And I want to say to these people, if you don't like it when the people of the country

00:37make Modi sit on the throne, I can understand, then you can abuse Modi.

00:46Hate Modi. Do as much as you can against Modi.

00:55Do as much as you can against Modi.

01:03If you want to burn Modi's statue, burn it!

01:16But don't burn the country's property.

01:21Don't burn the auto rickshaw of the poor.

01:24Don't burn the hut of the poor.

01:27Do as much as you can against Modi.

01:45What will you get by beating up the auto rickshaw of the poor?

01:55And brothers and sisters, the policemen who are being thrown stones at,

02:02are they being inspected?

02:05I want to ask these storm troopers.

02:09They are leading their protests.

02:12They are playing hide-and-seek behind the curtains.

02:16I want to ask, while the police officers are doing their duty,

02:22the people who are being subjected to violence,

02:27are they being accepted?

02:31What will you get?

02:35And, understand this fact,

02:41when you had a government before,

02:44these policemen were also yours.

02:47Governments change.

02:50Policemen are not anyone's enemy.