Anurag Kashyap's Speech At Shaheen Bagh

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The income-tax raids on director Anurag Kashyap and actor Taapsee Pannu again led to criticism that the government was targeting those who spoke against it. In 2020, Kashyap spoke at Delhi’s Shaheen Bagh about the importance of protesting.

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00:00This is a very long fight. This fight will not end until tomorrow.

00:05I don't have the right to ask you.

00:11I am neither a member of a political party nor do I know how to raise slogans.

00:14But I want to say from the bottom of my heart that this is a very long fight.

00:18This fight will not end until tomorrow.

00:21This fight will not end the day after tomorrow.

00:24This fight will not end on the next election.

00:27This is a very long fight. This is a fight of patience.

00:32I want to say that I had left everything.

00:35Neither the CAA nor the RCA nor the NPR affect me in any way.

00:40They don't affect me at all.

00:43And I used to disagree with a lot of things of the government.

00:47But there is a disagreement.

00:49And in this disagreement, you sometimes say,

00:52okay, this party has been given the mandate of the people.

00:55Maybe they want this.

00:57There was a time when I had left them in August.

00:59I had left the country.

01:03In December, when they attacked Jamia,

01:08when the CAA was implemented,

01:12there was a discussion about it.

01:14And the first protest started there.

01:16They started attacking.

01:17Because they crossed the first boundary, the first line.

01:22This has been their method for a long time.

01:26They themselves manufacture provocation.

01:30It is the government that will create violence among its own people

01:36so that they have an excuse.

01:38They should get a reason why they can attack you.

01:42This is their method.

01:44This has been the method of the governments.

01:46Every two days, they say,

01:48how can we trust such people?

01:50And if we listen to such people, how can we listen to them?

01:53That's why I say, they will provoke.

01:57They will say a lot.

01:59In today's date, if you open your mouth, lies come out.

02:02If you want to know when the government is lying to you,

02:05when they are lying, they are lying.

02:09In such a situation, it is very important

02:11that the grandmothers said,

02:13come here and talk.

02:15It is a simple method.

02:17If you think we are in a misunderstanding,

02:20then you come and clear our misunderstanding yourself.

02:24Until then, answer all our questions.

02:26Until then, we will not be satisfied

02:28that you will not do anything that we are afraid of.

02:33Until there is no dialogue,

02:35until there is no conversation between the two people,

02:37then how will it happen?

02:38This is one-sided talk.

02:39Say whatever you want.

02:40No one has the right to ask from the other side.

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