Vajpayee's Mic Drop Resignation From 1996

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He was given two weeks, and a House wrought with opposition, but the former Prime Minister sure went down swinging. Watch Atal Bihari Vajpayee's greatest resignation speech on his birthday.

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00:00The party is going to run for 365 days.

00:04It's not going to stand like a cuckoo in an election.

00:10But we will still sit in the form of the biggest opposition party in the Sadan.

00:15And you will have to run the Sadan with our co-operation.

00:18Don't forget this.

00:19I am going to give my resignation letter to the President.

00:25This is a cow belt.

00:26This is the support of the cow belt.

00:29The cow belt that is eaten,

00:32we have to include it in the Sadan like this.

00:37Which region are you talking about?

00:40Haryana.

00:41We live in Haryana.

00:44We have gained support in Karnataka.

00:49And it's okay that we are not as powerful in Kerala and Tamil Nadu,

00:53but we have our organization.

00:56In West Bengal also, we have got a little less than 10%.

01:02If you are talking about votes,

01:05then talk about 10% votes.

01:11In this Sadan, there is a party for each person.

01:15A party for each person.

01:19And they are fighting against us and trying to remove us.

01:25They have every right to try.

01:28But they are one.

01:30A party for each person.

01:32Let's go together.

01:35And let's go together from our constituency and get together in Delhi.

01:42Why should we get together?

01:44For the good of the country.

01:46It is necessary.

01:48We are also serving the country in our own way.

01:52And if we had not been patriots,

01:55and if we had not tried to make our place in politics without any selfish motive,

02:04and our efforts have taken 40 years of Sadhana.

02:10This is not an attractive demand.

02:13This is not a miracle.

02:17We have worked hard.

02:18We have gone among people.

02:19We have fought.

02:21The party is going to run for 365 days.

02:24This is not a party that is going to stand like a cuckoo in an election.

02:30And today, we are being made to stand in a crowd for no reason.

02:35Because we have not been able to whistle a little bit.

02:38I agree that this is our weakness.

02:40We should get a lot of votes.

02:44The President gave us an opportunity.

02:45We tried to take advantage of it.

02:47We did not succeed.

02:48That is a different matter.

02:50But we will still sit in the form of the biggest opposition party in Sadhana.

02:54And you will have to run Sadhana with our co-operation.

02:58Do not forget this.

03:00But in running Sadhana and running it properly,

03:04we will give you full co-operation.

03:06I want to assure you.

03:08But how will you make the government?

03:10Which program will the government be built on?

03:13How will the government run?

03:14I do not know.

03:16But as far as the Dalits are concerned,

03:19there are a total of 77 members of the schedule caste.

03:23And out of them, 29 members are BJP members.

03:38CPIM has 5 members.

03:41CPI has 1 member.

03:43Congress has 15 members.

03:45Janata Dal has 7 members.

03:47And most of them are our members.

03:55In the SCC and Schedule Tribes,

03:59the total number of seats is 41.

04:01BJP has 11.

04:05We do not have a popular base.

04:07We do not get popular support.

04:11If you want to leave us and stay in power,

04:17and you think that the government will be sustainable,

04:20I do not see any sign of it being sustainable.

04:29First of all, it is difficult to take birth.

04:32After taking birth, it is difficult to stay alive.

04:37And how much benefit will this government

04:40be able to bring to the country

04:42which is surrounded by antiracism?

04:44This is a question mark.

04:46For everything, you will have to run to Congress.

04:55And when you depend on them,

04:59I do not know,

05:01earlier there was a discussion,

05:03some conditions are being laid.

05:05We will have to make a coordinating committee.

05:08We coordinate on the floor as well.

05:11Without that, there is no movement.

05:14You want to run the whole country.

05:17That is a very good thing.

05:19We wish you all the best.

05:21We will be committed to serving our country.

05:26We bow our heads in front of the population.

05:30And we assure you that

05:32the work we have undertaken

05:34will not rest until we complete our national mission.

05:39We will not rest until then.

05:41Mr. President,

05:43I am going to give my resignation letter to the President.

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