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Articles: Interview | Mere ko pagal kutte...
- Prof. 00782 Maverick
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Rahul Bajaj: Absolutely correct except in the technical sense. If the Oxford
dictionary says that if you are an MP, in that context you are a politician,
then technically maybe.
Karan Thapar: If people listening to you come to the conclusion that Rahul
Bajaj has a complex accepting that he is in politics, and it's got to do with
his self-image, will you accept that too?
Rahul Bajaj: No why should I accept somebody's wrong conclusion? Nobody will
come to that conclusion. Karan Thapar would like them to come to that
conclusion. It suits them to maintain his image of being a bully in an
interview.
Karan Thapar: I am not being a bully, I'm simply trying to persist in
insisting.
Rahul Bajaj: You are bullying a humble, simple, young man.
Karan Thapar: A humble, simple, young man, you definitely are, but an obstinate
one who refuses to accept the obvious, that you are in politics.
Rahul Bajaj: I am not in politics.
Karan Thapar: Let's leave that there, let's come to the second issue. It's not
just that you are in politics but won't accept it, what is perplexing people is
the manner in which you have done it. You come from a family that's been
associated with the Congress and the Nehru Gandhi family for 70 years. Yet you
took support from the BJP and Shiv Sena?
Rahul Bajaj: Did I? I didn't.
Karan Thapar: Why? They voted for you. Out of the 195 votes you got the
majority were from them. 110 votes were from them. Without their support, you
wouldn't have been elected.
Rahul Bajaj: Without the NCP and their support I wouldn't have been elected.
You should ask them why they supported a guy who has very different views from
their's on many subjects?
Karan Thapar: I will come to that in a moment's time because I have a feeling
that I know why they voted for you. But I want to quote something else first.
Your grandfather Jamnalal Bajaj was a close associate of Mahatma Gandhi. He was
a member of the Congress Working Committee. He was treasurer of the Congress
party. He almost became Congress president. Your father, Kamalnayan Bajaj,
served as a three-time Congress MP. Would they be happy that today their
grandson and son has sought support from the BJP and Shiv Sena, parties that
are branded as communal.
Rahul Bajaj: They will be very happy at what I have done and achieved.
Karan Thapar: How do you know that?
Rahul Bajaj: I knew them much better. They wanted me to work for India, for the
poor, not for politicians or the party. I didn't ask them for support. They
offered it and I welcomed.
Karan Thapar: And you accepted it?
Rahul Bajaj: Of course.
Karan Thapar: You could have said no.
Rahul Bajaj: Why the hell should I say no? I am happy to be in the Rajya Sabha.
I am not dying to be in the Rajya Sabha. Don't look at your questions, you
should have them memorised.
Karan Thapar: I am not looking at the questions, I'm looking at a quotation, so
I get it right.
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