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Articles: Interview | Mere ko pagal kutte...
- Prof. 00782 Maverick
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Rahul Bajaj: You should have learnt it by heart before interviewing me.
Karan Thapar: I am afraid your words are not so important that I would want to
learn them by heart. On June 6, 2006 you said to The Hindu 'Mine is a Congress
family for the last 70 years and I am proud of the association.'
Rahul Bajaj: Correct.
Karan Thapar: Today you have weakened the party, you have destroyed and damaged
it's image. Are you happy with what you have done?
Rahul Bajaj: I have done nothing of the sort. You are insulting the Congress
party, you are insulting Sonia Gandhi. If one individual, who is no one, gets
into the Rajya Sabha because of the support of three parties who want to
support him for their own reasons. They wanted to defeat the Congress candidate.
Karan Thapar: So you don't think you have betrayed the family tradition? You
haven't let down or grandfather or father?
Rahul Bajaj: Not at all, he will be delighted up there that I am going to work
for the poor for India.
Karan Thapar: Delighted that you are seeking support from a party that stands
for the opposite of what he stood for?
Rahul Bajaj: What happened to Prabha Rao after the three-term elections?
Karan Thapar: He didn't join the Congress.
Rahul Bajaj: He stayed in the Congo.
Karan Thapar: Yes, but he didn't join the BJP or the Shiv Sena.
Rahul Bajaj: Why should he join the BJP? I haven't joined the BJP. But can we
have something more interesting?
Karan Thapar: You said a moment ago that these parties supported you for their
own reasons. They supported you, because they were using you. They wanted to
get at Congress and you were a tool. It wasn't Rahul Bajaj they wanted to make
an MP, that was incidental, they wanted to get at Congress. You have been used
Mr Bajaj.
Rahul Bajaj: If I am used like this, I would be delighted to continue to be
used like this. No industrialist in the last ten years has come to the Rajya
Sabha or Lok Sabha without spending a penny. The only money I spent was on 500
laddoos.
Karan Thapar:Yes, but in the process you have sold your soul to the BJP and the
Shiv Sena so that they can score points of Congress.
Rahul Bajaj: That's their problem. Congress is strong enough to defend itself.
There is no question. In fact I am working for India.
Karan Thapar: Do you know what they say? They say the mighty Rahul Bajaj, who
is so proud of himself, has become a political pawn in the hands of Sharad
Pawar.
Rahul Bajaj: I am a stooge.
Karan Thapar: Yes. I wasn't going to use such a cruel word but you used the
word.
Rahul Bajaj: I have become a Rajya Sabha MP and I have not spent a penny. That
is what the Hindustan Times said.
Karan Thapar: It is an accurate word. You are a stooge in Sharad Pawar's
strategy. You are a small pawn in the chessboard and he is calling the shots.
Rahul Bajaj: Mr Thapar, why couldn't the Congress use such a strategy and offer
me a seat like this with the help of NCP or nomination.
Karan Thapar: You have no qualms no reservations no doubt about what you have
done?
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