Marathi → English transcript

Some… on camera… I got calls from journalists, and about that they… …

told me to give a reaction to it. Because of that,

I am going to talk with you about this topic for five minutes and then finish.

Actually, right now I am not supposed to hold a press meet or say anything,

because my interviews have already been done… … rallies have been held,

speeches have been given, and through those many things… …

I have already spoken.

But yesterday,

where our rally was held at Shivtirth, there itself yesterday…

… Devendra Fadnavis and Eknath Shinde and all the other people had a rally.

And in that rally Devendra Fadnavis

said that what Raj Thackeray has said about Gautam Adani…

… then in that context he brought up Tata,

Ambani and all the other industrialists as well… …

and he said that those industrialists have also seen growth,

that is how he presented it.

Basically, even in my speech I had said this,

this issue is not against any industrialist… … or against any business

group or against industries coming in.

The issue is…

… that tomorrow Ambani will be there, Tata will be there,

other business groups will be there,

Birla will be there, some Hindujas will be there, there will be some more people… …

it has generally taken them about 50, 60, 100 years to reach this point.

But someone goes beyond even them and becomes big in just 10 years… …

my topic is over there.

So tomorrow, from your cement… … from steel, from ports, from airports,

from electricity… … when the monopoly on all these

things starts to come into the hands of one person… … then that person can hold this

country to ransom.

And when the central government that supplies him with everything is there… …

and when, from the Center,

they are given a complete red carpet,

and wherever they go and whatever they do… … this is where I object.

Tomorrow, if businesses grow, if industrialists grow, when industries come here,

employment is created here… … When jobs are created,

people’s homes are built, sons and daughters build their lives, they get jobs,

their families are established. Because of that,

there is opposition to industry and so on,

such foolishness has never been in my words, is not there now,

and will never be there.

But there is one thing I want to state before you, I want to tell you…

… that in all of this, take Ambani, take Tata, take any other industrialist,

take Birla, anyone… … they have built their empires by themselves. They have built

their industries on their own. That is, today, if, say, you look at the airport,

if you look at this one thing… …

then seven or eight airports today have been given to Gautam Adani by the

central government. And except for just one, the Navi Mumbai airport,

not a single airport has been built by Gautam Adani. These were built by others,

operated by others,

or were in the hands of the central government… … all these are such airports.

So except for that one airport,

there is not a single other airport that Gautam Adani has set up.

Ports. In this, except for one Mundra port… … as for however many

ports are now in the hands of that Gautam Adani… …

not a single port among these is a port that Gautam Adani has

established on his own. These were other people’s ports,

they were brought to gunpoint and all these ports were bought from them outright.

In the line of business in which Gautam Adani was never present…

… the cement business, in which he was never present…

… among these are Ultratech and Ambuja and whatever other companies there are… …

by buying these up,

this man, as of today at this very moment,

has reached number two in the cement business.

Today the Birlas are at number one, he is at number two.

In the last ten years, one man rises to number two in the cement business… …

by pulling away other people’s businesses,

by taking other people’s businesses into his own hands. It is the same in power,

it is the same in steel, many industries are like that.

So I just want to tell the Chief Minister that this issue is not about

anyone’s growth…

… about how the growth is happening… …

industry… how the industrialist himself is growing,

I feel it is necessary to understand that growth…

… it is necessary for every citizen of the country to understand it.

Tomorrow this one man can hold this country to ransom.

If we now want to see the best example of this,

then what Indigo has done in this country now… … the entire country was

brought to a complete standstill and all the airports that were shut down today… …

sixty- five percent of today’s air traffic was given to Indigo alone… …

and through that,

after one airline shut down or went bust,

we saw what happens to the country.

I feel this risk is the greatest,

and I think it is necessary for the Chief Minister to understand this risk… …

or they need to understand it,

or of course maybe they have understood, but even if they say it now,

whom will they tell.

So I mainly felt that this was something that needed to be put before the people.

And while setting up these businesses,

where did Gautam Adani get financial support from?

Which banks and which other institutions were made to provide them

financial assistance? If tomorrow, if such things collapse tomorrow… …

then, because of jobs, more jobs will be lost,

the country will be ruined and eve…

one day this country will come to a standstill. This was exactly what I meant,

and by using that one tool,

whenever you go to capture the cities in Maharashtra… … so I feel that danger

is very great for Maharashtra. My comments were only about that, I just wanted to

tell you this.

All right? Thank you.

What do you think the reason is now… Thank you.