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Articles: Interview | Mere ko pagal kutte...
- Prof. 00782 Maverick
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Rahul Bajaj: If you think only the poor understand the poor and only the rich
understand the rich and only a politician understands a politician and only a
journalist like you understands a journalist, you are far away from truth. It's
only the rich who understand the poor and also an occasional genuine honest
poor will understand the poor.
Karan Thapar: Only the rich understand the poor?
Rahul Bajaj: I didn't say only. I said the rich and also the poor, but not the
slogan-mongering politician who want votes. So it is irrelevant if I am rich or
poor.
Karan Thapar:You sound just like a slogan mongering politician to me. You have
adapted to your new role with alacrity.
Rahul Bajaj: Absolutely.
Karan Thapar: You sound like an exact sort of person that inhabits the Rajya
Sabha. You have taken like the fish takes to water.
Rahul Bajaj: When in Rome do as the Romans do.
Karan Thapar: So you are accepting it?
Rahul Bajaj: Of course. I am going to function as I am supposed to function in
Rajya Sabha. I will not function in the Rajya Sabha as I am supposed to
function in the boardroom of Bajaj Auto. It will be stupid.
Karan Thapar: Are you saying to me that you are going to become a convention
typical Indian politician?
Rahul Bajaj: I don't know what that is. If your conventional Indian politician
is good that's what I will be if he is corrupt, useless and a criminal, I will
not be.
Karan Thapar: Can I put a question to you?
Rahul Bajaj: Yes.
Karan Thapar: 89 per cent of the farmers in Maharashtra are in debt. Their
quantum of debt has increased by 232 per cent since 1991. As a result in the
last one-year 550 suicides have taken place in just one district, Vidharba.
Rahul Bajaj: Very wrong question again.
Karan Thapar: But an important one.
Rahul Bajaj: Just say the farmers are in trouble in Maharashtra and Andhra and
some other places and I know that.
Karan Thapar: But I am talking of debt in particular because can a man who is
worth Rs 419 crore understand what it is like to be in debt to the point at
which you take your life. Can you understand that?
Rahul Bajaj: Let's say that I can't understand.
Karan Thapar: Well if you can't understand then what sort of representative
will you be?
Rahul Bajaj: What are the other 800 doing and what have they done about these
farmers? You find out what I will do after 6, 12, 18 months and four years.
That's when you will find out what Rahul Bajaj does. And he is not presumptuous
enough just unlike you. Rahul is not presumptuous enough to believe that out of
800 MPs, one MP will do any magic for anybody, leave alone the farmers. I don't
want to shed crocodile tears for anybody and I will not.
Karan Thapar: But will you be able to do a job that will make Maharashtra proud
of you.
Rahul Bajaj: That time will tell. It will be presumptuous.
Karan Thapar: Are you confident?
Rahul Bajaj: I will do my best and I am confident that till now whatever I have
done, I have achieved a very little modicum of success. And I hope to achieve
with God's good grace and cooperation of friends. I hope to achieve a very
small modicum of success in the Rajya Sabha during my remaining four-year term.
Karan Thapar: Rahul Bajaj on that note, Good Luck as a Rajya Sabha MP. We will
be watching you.
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