I travelled through Great Nicobar today.
These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow.
The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs.
The government calls what it is doing here a тАЬProject.тАЭ What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away.
This is not development. This is destruction dressed in developmentтАЩs language.
So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this countryтАЩs natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime.
It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
The foundation of every single nation is its energy security. I do not say this lightly, but allowing the United States to decide who we buy oil from, whether we can buy oil from Russia or not, and whether our relationships with different oil suppliers can be decided by us - this is what has been bartered.
It is a very puzzling fact why a nation the size of India would allow any other nation, or the President of another nation, to give us permission to buy Russian oil and decide who our relationships are with.
I have figured the puzzle out, and the puzzle is about compromise. We have a gentleman sitting here who is the Oil Minister. He himself has said that he is a friend of Mr. Epstein.
I have a document which shows that his (Hardeep Singh Puri) daughter has received money from George Soros.
: LoP Shri @RahulGandhi in Lok Sabha
AtЁЯУНIYC HQ , a meeting was held under the leadership of IYC President Shri @UdayBhanuIYC, focusing on the next phase of our movement against the Anti-India US trade deal.
IndiaтАЩs interests cannot be compromised. The movement will continue until the deal is scrapped. ЁЯЗоЁЯЗ│