Syed Azizul Hasan Sahab, Ilyas Sahab, Abdur Rehman Sahab, Kolse Patil Sahab and

everyone else sitting on the stage, and all of you present in this gathering, young and old, I
give my revolutionary greetings to each one of you, to your spirit of fighting against this
government for your rights. A special thanks to the person who introduced me and told all of
you that my original hometown is Amravati, and that today is a kind of a homecoming for
me. A big thanks for this Ghar Wapsi. I dont have a problem with this Ghar Wapsi. Yes, we
certainly have a problem with the other one. 

Right now, when IPS Abdur Rehman was speaking, he spoke about Gandhi and told us that
the weapons that Mahatma Gandhi has given us to fight are Ahimsa and Satyagrah. Civil
Disobedience and Non-Cooperation were the methods of Mahatma Gandhi in his fight, and it
is through these methods of struggle that we achieved our freedom. That was the time when
we were fighting the white colonisers, and when we were fighting against them, the ancestors
of the present day rulers of India - the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha - were acting as agents
of the British. Today, they are asking us for the records of our ancestors. It is important to ask
them about the record of their ancestors. When the people of India were giving sacrifices -
from Jallainwala Bagh massacre to many other incidents when the British shot Indians down,
imprisoned so many who dreamt of India's freedom, the ancestors of the present day rulers
were acting as agents of the British. We want to tell them that at that time, we carried out
civil disobedience against the white colonisers (goro), and now in 2020 we will do civil
disobedience against the thieves (choro). 

If there is anyone following principles showed by Mahatma Gandhi in India today, it is the
people of India. And if there is anyone who has shown the path to the people of India, it is the
women of Shaheen Bagh. I live about 10 mins away from Shaheen Bagh. Two months ago,
no one besides the people of our locality knew about Shaheen Bagh, but we should thank
Narendra Modi that he gave us an opportunity because of which Shaheen Bagh is now known
across the country. And the path showed by Shaheen Bagh has made our country into one big
garden (baagh) and we will bring spring in this garden. I want to thank the women - the
mothers, sisters, nanis and dadis - of Shaheen Bagh who stood up when oppression was its
peak. 

The movement began from Jamia Millia Islamia and Aligarh Muslim University. Then on the
painful night of 15th December, the police entered the premises of Jamia Millia Islamia, its
library and beat up students and used tear gas against the students. The hands of students
were fractured, one student lost an eye permanently. There was a fog of fear in the entire
locality.  They were using a gun - called stun grenade. When that is fired, it causes a huge
sound as if there is an explosion. It sounds as if a bomb has exploded. That night, such
sounds could be heard in the entire area. Tear gas had engulfed the entire area. Even if you
were two kilometers away from the university, even then tears would come out of your eyes
because of the amount of tear gas that was fired. There was a reign of terror in the entire area
on that night. In that area, people are usually out on the roads till 11 pm-12 mid night but on
that night, the entire area had turned desolate by 7 pm. People were inside their homes. Some
of us went to the local police station to request them to end all of this, but the police station
closed its doors and refused to listen to us. In that environment of fear and terror, if there was
anyone who showed the courage to come out on the streets, it was the dadis of Shaheen Bagh,
and they went and did a chakka jam of the highway, and showed us the way. We cant thank
these women enough. 
In the last two months, they have tried to scare Shaheen Bagh, to crush Shaheen Bagh, to
defame Shaheen Bagh, but the more they tried to crush Shaheen Bagh, the more Shaheen
Bagh flourished and came up. Today, there is a Shaheen Bagh in every corner of the country.
They cant crush us. Till yesterday, our Home Minister was saying that protest as much as you
want, we are not going to move an inch back. And now four days back, he made a statement
asking for 3 days time after which he will be ready to talk. The ones who were saying that
they wont move an inch back are speaking in a different tone today. The credit for that goes
to the women of Shaheen Bagh. The women of Shaheen Bagh saw the offer of talks as
something great. After all, that is what they had been demanding - a dialogue. But the women
of Shaheen Bagh said that now no one person would go for these talkd, because this
movement is not led by one leader, or one party or one organisation. It is a movement of the
people, and the people will go and talk to the Home Minister. They started marching towards
the Home Minister's residence, but the Home Minister and the Delhi Police got so scared that
they stopped them at Shaheen Bagh itself. This offer of talks was another jumla by this
government. Ever since Home Minister made this statement (of talks), several people wrote
that they would want to talk and that a democracy functions through dialogue, and that we
would correct you on CAA/NRC/NPR. But he did not respond to even a single person. This
shows that Home Minister is trying to misguide. They might do a drama after this, they might
call some of their agents from amongst us, take them to a TV studio and after fixing the entire
match, do a farce of talks. Now, we want to tell them, that if you want to talk, now you will
have to come to us - to Shaheen Bagh, Sabzibagh, Bilalbagh, Motibagh, the Shaheen Baghs
of Kerala, the over 20 Shaheen Baghs of Maharasthra. Now, we want to tell the Home
Minister, Aao Kabhi Haveli Pe, Aao Hamari Haveli Pe! 

IPS Abdur Rehman Sahab told us that civil disobedience was taught to us by Gandhi. The
first time, Gandhi did Non-Cooperation against the British, one institute, one university that
came out of that was Jamia Millia Islamia. At that time, Gandhiji had given a call to boycott
schools and colleges run by the British, and to Indians to establish their own schools and
colleges. The first university to come up to fight for India's independence was Jamia Millia
Islamia. Today, the university is being lathi-charged upon, fired bullets upon, being defamed
and being called a den of anti-nationals. We want to tell them, that when your ancestors were
acting as agents of the British, the students, teachers and even the VCs were fighting against
the British government. They were being imprisoned, and unlike your ancestors they never
apologised to the British to be released from jail. Instead, they fought till their end against the
British government. The history of Jamia Millia Islamia, our history is a history of sacrifices
for the country. If there is any threat to the freedom of our country - that Jamia Millia Islamia
and several freedom fighters fought for - or to the values of our country laid by its founding
figures and those who drafted its constitution...if there is any threat to our country, then, like
our freedom fighters, we would stand up to save our freedom, our democracy and our
constitution. If you want to rain us with lathis or bullets, you can go ahead. If you want to jail
us, you can go ahead. We are ready for sacrifices. 

We will not respond to violence with violence. We will not respond to hate with hate. If they
spread hate, we will respond to it by spreading love. If they beat us with lathis, we will hold
aloft the tri-color. If they fire bullets, then we will hold the Constitution and raise our hands.
If they jail us, we will go to jail happily singing, "Saarey Jahaan Se Acha Hindustan
Hamara". But we will not let you destroy our country. 

We are talking about Mahatma Gandhi. The year - 2019 - when this CAA was passed was
also the 150th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi.  And in this year, we became a country
which sent a person to the Parliament who openly called the killer of our Father of the Nation
as a patriot. We sent such people to the Parliament, and they used the floor of the Parliament
to destroy the vision and idea of India envisioned by Gandhi. We swear by Mahatma Gandhi,
that it is our responsibility to now defeat you. You might have brought CAA in 2019, but we
will fight to end CAA in 2020. We will not let this country be divided, irrespective of how
hard you try to divide it. 

A lot of other things happened in the last two months. On the one hand, they were dividing
the country, and we were busy in how to save it, but in the meantime they were also selling
away the country. An entire budget was passed in the meantime, but we barely discussed it.
LIC was privatised, but it was not discussed. They are trying to sell off the railways, but who
is discussing it. They made cuts in education and health, but we could hardly discuss it. The
budget for food security was cut down upon. Once again, we barely discussed it. The people
of this country are hungry. If there is a country which accounts for the highest number of
deaths of children due to malnutrition, it is unfortunately our country. There are so many
people who go to bed hungry in this country. In the global hunger Index, we rank at 102 out
of 119 countries. We needed to fight against hunger, we needed to fight against
unemployment, against price rise, but they are instead trying to divide the country. They had
promised us ache din (good times). Today, looking around, I am reminded of a song by
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan for those who might have believed in those slogans:

Sochta Hoon Ki Woh Kitne Nadaan The, 

Kya Se Kya Ho Gaya Dekhte Dekhte! 

The biggest joker of the world, Donald Trump is coming to Gujarat. The President of US and
our Prime Minister claim to be great friends. A few months ago, our PM had gone to the US.
Donald Trump saw it as a nice opportunity, considering US is going to have elections next
year, to use PM Modi for election campaign amongst the Indians who live in the US. They
were called to the stadium, and Narendra Modi campaigned for Trump there. Anyways, all
that our Prime Minister does is election campaigns - from one election to the other. But it
happened for the first time in the history of our republic - as Narendra Modi keeps saying he
has done things which never happened in the past 70 years - that our Prime Minister
campaigned in another country for a President of that country. And while campaigning for
Donald Trump, he said that people shouldnt worry about India as everything is fine in India.
Bharat Main Sab Changa Si! 

Now his friend is coming to India, and on 24th of February he will go to Ahmedabad. For his
visit, they are covering and hiding the slums of Ahmedabad - crores are being spent to hide
the slums of Ahmedabad. A lot has been said about the development in Gujarat, how it ranks
right up there with the cities of Japan and China. Today, this is the truth of Gujarat that the
PM is ashamed of it and its development, that he has to hide its slums. Lest Donald Trump
gets to know that Bharat Main Sab Changa Si Nahi Hai, Modi Nanga Si Hai. We promise
when Donald Trump comes to India on 24th, then we will tell that the PM of India and the
Government of India is trying to divide the country, destroying the values of Mahatma
Gandhi and that the people of India are fighting against the Government of India. If the rulers
want to divide India, the people of India are ready to unite the country. We will come out on
the streets. Will you?
A lot of thanks to you. While concluding all I would want to say that this is a long fight, we
have been fighting for the last 50 days, but dont ever be hopeless. Dont ever think that we
havent achieved anything in the last 50 days. Dont be hopeless that the Government hasnt yet
withdrawn CAA/NRC/NPR. The greatest thing we have achieved in the last 50 days is
courage. Over the last 5 and a half years, there were many kinds of oppression on the people
of India, its minorities, and specifically Muslims. Mob lynching became so common that
even those who dont know English language now know the meaning of the word lynching.
Akhlaq, Pehlu Khan, Tabrez Ansari...the list is long. When lynchings happened, the ministers
of the government garlanded those carried out such acts. No one went to the houses of those
lynched. Even we didnt raise our voices or come out on the streets. Because we were fearful
that what happened with Akhlaq might happen with us. When Article 370 was revoked in
Kashmir, no one protested. When the Ayodhya judgement came, no one opposed that
judgement. They (the government) had become so drunk on arrogance and power, that they
started thinking that the people of India are so afraid that they will never oppose them. Today,
we told them that by oppressing us so much, by trying to scare us again and again, today you
have removed fear from our hearts. And if the people cease to remain afraid anymore, the
government should be really afraid. Because people shouldnt be afraid of their government,
the government should be afraid of its people. It is because of our votes that governments are
formed. If they are there because of us, we can also remove them from power. Look at their
audacity - they came to power through the votes of the people, and now they are asking us to
prove our citizenship.  Who are you? Because of our votes, you are sitting in power. You are
there because of us, we are not here because of you. You cant raise questions on our
citizenship. If you raise questions on our citizenship, if you cross the line of the Constitution,
if you cross the line, then, just like the Dadis of Shaheen Bagh, we promise that we will bring
you in line. Amit Shah keeps talking about a chronology, so I will also end with a chronology
for him: First CAA will go, then NPR will go, then NRC will go and then this government
will go. 

All of you present here, a big thank you to all of you. Keep fighting. Keep up the courage.
We will win. Victory will be that of Mahatma Gandhi. Godse-wadis lost earlier as well, they
will lose again. Inquilab Zindabad!