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Video: Watch full Shashi Tharoor speech in JNU – India not just 'Hindi, Hindu and Hindustan'

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Congress MP Shashi Tharoor spoke in JNU on Sunday lauding its students for triggering a debate on vital issues affecting the nation.  "You may have come here for education but you are also educating the nation. What is happening here has given the whole nation an education 'azaadi' (freedom)," he said.
Tharoor slammed BJP for trying to decide nationalism on the basis of if one
would say 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' or not (video below)

March 21, 2016, NewsCrunch

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor spoke in JNU on Sunday lauding its students for triggering a debate on vital issues affecting the nation.

"You may have come here for education but you are also educating the nation. What is happening here has given the whole nation an education 'azaadi' (freedom)," he said.

In a 40-minute speech said India had a rich tradition of accepting diversity and the country was not just ‘Hindi, Hindu and Hindustan’.

He slammed BJP for trying to decide nationalism on the basis of if one would say 'Bharat Mata Ki Jai' or not.

"Our Constitution gives people the right not to say it, just as it gives people the right to say it as well. I will choose when to say it and that's democracy," Tharoor said.

Video: Watch full Shashi Tharoor speech in JNU – Indianot just 'Hindi, Hindu and Hindustan'





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