Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi on Thursday addressed top industrialists at a gathering of the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) in New Delhi.
Highlights:- It is an honour for me to be here today
- A hundred years ago, India was an energy, a force
- As the energy moved from India and goes abroad, you are the cutting edge, you are the people who tell the world what this is about
- When I went to college in 1991, people asked me if elephants walked on the streets of India... No one asks that now
- As we talk here a billion people are breaking their shackles
- We are sitting on an unstoppable tide of human aspiration
- We need to use energy generated by movement of people and ideas and help everybody
- Millions of youngsters are everyday struggling with optimism
- Why are we making our students learn obsolete things?
- Weed out the obsolete from our education system
- A billion people are breaking their shackles, taking their place under the sun
- We are sitting on an unstoppable tide of human aspiration
- We need to use energy generated by movement of people and ideas and help everybody
- Govt alone cannot build infrastructure
- Millions of youngsters are everyday struggling with optimism
- A billion people are breaking their shackles, taking their place under the sun
- Today we are mortgaging our future because large part of our education and training is based on defunct ideas
- Our problem is the lack of training and skills
- Why is it that degree from Harvard costs the same as much as capitation fee of a medical college in Lucknow?
- Joblessness is not a problem, lack of training is
- Industry takes the lead in creation of jobs
- For the young difference between aspiration and empowerment is a job
- What is it that we should worry about? The biggest danger is excluding people - women, the minorities, dalits, tribals
- Our economic vision must be more than money, it must be about compassion. Embracing the excluded is essential
- Need to provide basic infrastructure to everyone to rise together
- Inclusive growth is a win-win for everybody
- There are some problems that need exponential solutions; whenever India has done well it has done so not by incremental change but by radically altering structures
- I invite business to unleash entrepreneurship, jobs and skills
- We are readying ourselves for a new political architecture
- I have come here because I believe in you, Rahul tells Corporate India
- I have come here because I want to forge a partnership with you; to build a brave, empowered India
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@ChaitanyaKalbag: Bouncers, lo- cked doors, suited & bejewelled mobs, bursting hall at #RahulGandhi first speech @ #CII - rock-concert mayhem
Rohit Saran @indianeconomy: Rahul Gandhi's speech is personal, emotional and interactive--rare in Indian politics.
@DeartonHector: "Democracy and technology has triggered non- reversible growth." #RahulGandhi
@DeartonHector: #RahulGandhi "I am an MP. But I am doing a job of a Pradhan. That's our problem."
@DeartonHector: "China has a centralised system. It is a Dragon. Big structures are visible...which one is more powerful?" #RahulGandhi
@anileshmahajan: after spending 9 years in power, Rahul Gandhi says, Indian political system is faulty.
@DeartonHector: Fifty years ago, our system was small. We could have done without institutions. Structures have changed now." #RahulGandhi
@DeartonHector: #RahulGandhi at #CII Is it Steve Jobs on stage?
Rohit Saran @indianeconomy: But he talks like an opposition leader, not like a person whose party has been ruling the country for 9 years in a row !
@DeartonHector: "Anger, hatred and prejudice do not contribute to growth." #RahulGandhi
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