Hindi → English transcript

One dollar equals 150 rupees—this slipped out of my mouth, which is causing a lot of uproar. I

will tell you one thing, okay? What is China's currency? Yuan.

Exactly 12 months ago today, one yuan was equal to 11.87 rupees.

Okay? Today, what is it equal to? 14.08 rupees.

Do you know how much of a difference that is? Almost 19%. Within one year, our currency

depreciated by 19% against the Chinese currency. Do you understand what that means?

If we were to do all our trade with China in yuan,

boss, everything we import from China has become almost 20% more expensive within a year. In one

year! What don't we import from China?

Even for the goods we export, the majority of their raw materials come from China.

It's 20% more expensive within a year, if we were to buy in yuan.

Why am I telling you this?

These people are so eager to defend it, saying, "No, no, no, look, by 2029, your rupee...

...will drop from here towards 80, 70, 60."

Are we joking, guys? At least let us talk seriously about these things. Numbers...

How many numbers will you fudge? Now, if you don't want to compare the rupee to the dollar, look at the yuan.

Do you know how much our currency has depreciated against Vietnam's currency in a year?

You would be ashamed.

Do you know what happened with Switzerland's currency? There is almost a 30% depreciation against the Swiss franc within a year.

30%!

I feel ashamed saying this, but brother, what can we do?

We... what... what are we defending?

At least let us start to talk facts like facts.

So that we ask the right questions to the government, to our authorities, so that pressure is built on them, like, 'Okay, what are we doing about these things?'

We aren't even telling the truth… truth… truth… truth… truth.

What the trouble is, what the problems are, they aren't even telling us.

So we influencers have to guess the problems, the common man has to guess them.

No one has any complaint about that, as to why the government isn't telling us the problem. Why Modi ji isn't telling us what troubles are going on.

The economy has been in such a big crisis for two years. Those who are making noise, we have been making noise for two years that there are problems, and in two years, everyone knows how much the currency has depreciated.

That doesn't happen out of thin air. Our currency is so bad because the economy is in shambles.

Is anyone asking questions?

Start asking questions.

Ask our government why our currency has depreciated by almost 20% against the Chinese currency within a year, 20%!

Only then should you start calling yourself a patriot or a nationalist.

Come on, show some patriotism, my friend.