Aditya DeviLal Chautala, Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLA from Haryana, talks about the Jantar Mantar student agitation, why Haryana youth migrating to other countries, and police repression against agitators at the Jantar Mantar protest. He was attending a community meet-greet program in Melbourne. (Aditya speaks in Hindi & transcribed English text is available below:
Video Hindi text transcript into English (from YouTube) – Google translator. (Hindi transcribed text is in the video description)
Hello, I am Aditya Devi Lal Chautala, MLA from Dabwali, Haryana. Today, I am in Melbourne and
I came to meet many of the Indian people from Melbourne who have settled here.
Many asked me about the situation in India, and I told them about what is happening in India.
You left India thinking that you would earn enough to support your family. The youth in India today also wants a better life ahead.
May their dreams come true. But unfortunately, the youth of India have to hesitate to achieve their dreams.
They have to sit on Jantar Mantar to fight for their rights. Which is the most highly populated country in the entire world.
Even in a democratic country, people have to take to the streets to fight for their rights and face lathi charge.
The youth of India is going through such times. Just imagine, the youth of the country which was once called the golden bird, today have to struggle.
Many youth from Haryana had to go to America instead of Melbourne, Australia. The biggest reason for this is that
the Haryana government has never made any policy regarding its youth. No policy has been formulated on how to educate
The youth should be given employment. Our grandfather Chaudhary Devi Lal ji’s slogan was that every hand should get work, every stomach should get fold get shelter.
We proved this. Today, the Bharatiya Janata Party is in power in Haryana for the third time, but there is no vision and no work.
They only have directions from Delhi: what to give to Adani, what to give to Ambani, they have to work on that from the public.
They have no support. The youth of their Haryana are forced to go abroad to fulfils their dreams and
young friends are working hard here, yearning for employment in India, sitting at Jantar Mantar and getting beaten with sticks. Guess where India is, the world leader?
India’s future is being beaten with sticks. (This translation is not perfect)
