Clarification on Bangladesh Student Movement

recent days because, and I saw that you, uh, issued a clarification on this today

itself, because you, uh, were quoted as saying that

you took inspiration from the student, uh, you know, uh,

revolt in Bangladesh and what happened there.

Today, you put out a clarification saying that,

uh, it was actually, um,

a, a doctored video, uh, that the right-wing IT cell had put

out. So just clarify this once and for all.

Do you take inspiration from Bangladesh or not?

What's, what's the bottom line here?

So that video was made... So

different organizations have, uh, which are

organizations,

go through a,

a annual procedure, biannual procedure, whatever, I mean, that

varies. But there is a, uh, there i- there are, uh, national

conferences through which different organizations reconstitute

themselves. Uh, uh, I mean, it goes on even in the

RSS and the BJP, and it goes on in different other

organizations also. And they have been going on for a very,

very

long time in progressive left student

organization. So the video that was doctored and

circulated was actually made to address

the National Conference of the Socialist Student Front, which is a progressive

socialist group in Bangladesh. Now, that

video was supposed to, uh, uh, have been played in their

national conference, and I was congratulating the activists

of SSF. I was saying that I take inspiration from the

movement that they have, uh, uh, erected in their country and

the progressive, uh, fight that they are waging against their country's

authoritarianism, their country's religious fundamentalism.

So the video was about that. And, you know,

if you wanna talk about Bangladesh, you

know, I understand, and it, uh, it's almost become

a part of our society, which is so sad because the BJP has trained us

into

this, that the moment you hear Bangladesh, you have to become

extremely agitated. You don't know why you're agitated,

but you have to

fill yourself with hatred and whatever follows the word Bangladesh,

you have

to condemn it.

We've been trained into this by Godi media, we've been trained

into this by the entire right-wing ecosystem. So what exactly went on?

I, I, I just want to, I just want to-

Yeah

... set the record straight. What you're saying here is you

were not calling

for the violent overthrow of the Modi government, uh, you know,

parallel to what happened in Bangladesh. You were not saying that.

You were actually praising-

Of course not

... the Progressive Students Organization. Is that correct?

Of course, ma'am, of course. I mean, even the right-wing needs to understand

that you cannot accuse a person who has been sitting on 23 days of hunger

strike