Assam: Debate Over Pressure on 7 Million People and Election Campaigns

- How will you drive out these seven million?- I cannot drive them out in my

lifetime. - That is why I have to keep them under pressure.- Keep them how?

- By putting pressure.- By putting pressure.- Yes.- People will drive them out?

- Put pressure.- What,

on whom should we put pressure?- Put pressure. - Then,

somehow, those people will leave on their own.- By pressure I mean harassing them.

Where is the railway in India to drive out seven million people? So this is not

humanly possible for anyone.

So I will have to create an atmosphere so that those people leave on their own.

- It is only when you create this atmosphere that you are attacked.-

For five years I have…

We create so much of an atmosphere, so much of an atmosphere,

that everyone feels that... - Listen, sir,

listen.- Everyone feels that so much anxiety is spreading among Assamese people...

That look, this is full now, we are not even here anymore, we are going extinct.

Exactly, at least you said that, I liked it.

- How will we go extinct just because seventy lakh come?- They cannot be expelled.

But create an atmosphere in that where we don't want you. You, for us,

I do not want you. If an atmosphere is created at home that I am unwanted…

then people also leave and go outside.

So some results have come in these five years.

- And what if fights break out at home?- Then let them happen.

- Then what about law and order?- In that, do not take the law into your own hands.

Do not physically harm anyone.

That is why, instead of five rupees for that place… I said four rupees. I have never

said,“ Beat him.”

- That, that is not allowed.- Does this pitch of yours rise during election time?

- Because you feel this is how you will get votes.- I do not even say these things

during election time.

Now listen to one of my speeches. I do not take the name“ miyan.”

Nor do I say such things. I am with mothers, with youth… How many jobs have I given,

how much help have I done… And what do I feel like doing? Today, in ten days I…

I was on the Aashirvaad Yatra.

I did not say Rahul Gandhi’s name even once. I did not say Gaurav Gogoi’s name,

I did not say Ajmal’s name…

I did not say Akhil Gogoi’s name.

Why? My way of doing an election campaign is different.

- What gets the biggest applause?- There is no applause for anything,

we dance, I dance and sing. - You sing too?- That, well, I do not really sing,

I just hum a bit.

- Is that why you did not take their names? What kind of songs do you sing?

Our songs are campaign songs, everything is positive. With the campaign we

dance, I dance. And during the campaign I do not say these things. Because I do not

want to use, to convert the election into emotions.