When Pinarayi Vijayan Took On The RSS In Mangalore

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In 2017, Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan defied threats from RSS activists to deliver a strong speech in Mangalore. As he gets ready to begin his second straight term as the state's CM, watch the most powerful parts of the speech here...

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00:00That day, I walked with the knife in your hands and the handcuffs in the middle of you.

00:11That day, you couldn't do anything.

00:15Now, what are you going to do?

00:22There are policemen.

00:24There are various weapons in their hands.

00:27I can say that I am walking through those weapons.

00:34That is the way of our death culture.

00:38But I have something to say to the RSS and to those who called me.

00:45I, Kalarayivijan, one day in the morning,

00:50suddenly fell from the sky and sat down in front of the Chief Minister's chair.

00:59It is not that I didn't know you in person, the RSS.

01:05It is because I saw you and because I knew you that my political activities have been carried out so far.

01:14Now, when I say that I am walking through the weapons in the hands of the police,

01:21it is the time when I graduated from Brennan College and went out.

01:28If the RSS members don't know that time, they should ask the old RSS members.

01:37That day, I walked through the weapons in your hands.

01:53That day, you couldn't do anything.

01:57Now, what are you going to do?

02:02You are talking about the ban on my travel to Madhya Pradesh.

02:07When I go to an institution and say that I am a person sitting in the position of Chief Minister,

02:12it is an honor for me to accept what the government says in that institution.

02:18It is an honor that a Chief Minister should accept.

02:21That government said that I should not go there.

02:24I obeyed it.

02:26If it is not the Chief Minister, then Indira Gandhi will not be able to stop me.

02:31You can understand that.

02:34So, there is no need for that threat to come here.

02:38Why are you doing such things?

02:43So, our country has strongly opposed this.

02:49In this regard, all the leaders here,

02:54we have to respond to the deep-seated criticism that a person cannot come here and speak.

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