The roaring tiger: MP Gaurav Gogoi's speech whip up spark even after four days

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• Dec 6, 2021 | moderator

New Delhi: Congress MP Gaurav Gogoi gave a fiery speech in the parliament, blaming the present government over their failure to handle Covid pandemic and for being ‘insensitive’ and ‘ill-prepared’ in implementing their policies in the name of development. The speech made two days ago, during the Winter session of the parliament, has already garnered praise and veneration of him being a leader with no-nonsense attitude and fighting his each every word in the parliament with conviction.

His roaring speech has moved the entire state of Assam with many eulogizing him as the right candidate as a leader from the Congress party. The Assam MP alleged that even after the nation had reeled under two deadly waves of Covid, the Centre had been ‘cruel’ towards its citizens and had only added to its burdens by increasing fuel prices.

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"People who have elected you, have expectations that when a pandemic comes and they go to hospitals, adequate treatment is given to them. They hoped that when they would go to PM's government hospitals, they would get beds, medicines, oxygen. But what happened? Ventilators, Oxygen were in such shortage that you had to beg other nations for them. Was this your preparedness? Did the first wave in 2020 not make you aware that you should have had everything ready by 2021? In Ma Ganga, dead bodies were floating," said Gaurav Gogoi.

Fluent and articulate with his views on various political issues, Gaurav Gogoi unlike his peers knows how not to ‘mince’ his words just like his late father Shri Tarun Gogoi, who became the state’s longest-serving chief minister, led the Congress while tackling factionalism in its state unit, and despite the BJP onslaught, mustered the courage for an alliance with Ajmal’s AIUDF for the last elections, just few months before his death.

When Gaurav was born in 1982, his father was an MP. As an 11-year-old, he saw his father becoming a Central minister and before he turned 19, Tarun Gogoi became chief minister of Assam. "The value education classes in my alma mater, St. Columbus School in Delhi, kept me grounded," says Gaurav who loves dancing and used to choreograph corporate shows at work. It's only during his stint in Pravah, he realised that "politics offers a much larger landscape to work for the downtrodden". But he did not want to join the bandwagon without preparation.

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"I went to study public administration in the US in 2008 for two reasons: to train myself and to understand how development projects are carried out in developed countries," he says. Two years later, with a degree from New York University and a brief stint as a policy aide with the Permanent Mission of India to the United Nations in New York, Gaurav returned home to help his father in the 2011 Assembly polls. It also offered him an opportunity to have a firsthand experience of the political dynamics of India.

Since his joining in politics, Gaurav Gogoi’s good speaking skills and a legacy his family had carried forward while being a loyalist of the Gandhis, Gogoi stands out as the best pick of the Congress as a young leader to an already crumbling party following its numerous defeats in the recent elections.

Gogoi stands out as a hope, a leader in making, a great orator who has the persona of a nuanced gentleman, capable of turning tables in his favour through his fiery discourse like the one he gave in the parliament two days ago. Not to say even when the opposition raised voices, the speaker allowed Gogoi to carry on with his speech – a charm which he has dribbled along on political lines with ease even on various international forums.