Chennai: For two days now, Mahua Moitra's speech has been quoted widely in social media and the firebrand MP is finding more fans outside her own state. The speech, which is nearly 10 minutes long, is probably the biggest load of ammunition we have heard from Moitra. The 44-year-old Trinamool leader, who was a banker in the US before becoming a politician here, has been noted several times by the youth. Memorably, she had once shown the middle finger to a repeatedly interrupting Arnab Goswami on his own air time. She had been very vocally against the NPR, NRC and the CAA.

The speech that the lady gave on the floor of the House on February 3 is fast becoming the textbook example for a diatribe, just like Gopal Krishna Gokhale's speeches in the British Indian parliament used to be the textbook examples for diatribes in an age.

"You betrayed the young voter who was looking forward to his first job. You betrayed the small businessman by your foolish decision of demonetisation - killing his market, ruining his business for no fathomable reason. You betrayed thousands of tribal people in Gujarat, whose land you took to build a statue and to whom you have now given 'jobs' as toilet cleaners. You betrayed them by questioning the citizenship of the very people who voted you to power," says Mitra in the opening of the speech.

The lady then referred to the holocaust, noting that not just the perpetrators, but also the silent spectators were responsible for the inhumanities. "The NPR, the NRC, and the CAA are all tools in this machiavellian design to first mark out, then disenfranchise and finally annihilate. This is your biggest betrayal of those who voted for you: nobody wanted to be part of 'us Vs them' debate."

Talking further about the economy, the former banker took about three minutes to quote actual statistics and tear apart the government's claim that the economy was fine. Moitra termed the practices of the government, archaic jugglery "where the finance minister is fearful of putting out a real GDP target." She reminds people that the Consumer Price Index in December was 6.7%. Given that the finance minister had announced on the floor that the nominal GDP target is 10%, Moitra did some basic maths and wondered if the real GDP was around 3.3%.

This probably is the first instance where Nirmala Sitaraman had been called 'fearfull' instead of an actual instigator of the falling economy.

The lady accuses the government of smudging data, hiding reliable data because it was against their claims, talks about government denying reports of growing unemployment before signing off with the rousing punchline: "those who are proud of the nation, where are they? They are here, are here, are here!"