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Rahul Bajaj: I would not have gone. They should have come to me. How can I come to somebody and say give me an independent seat. They were going to put my sister, Prabha Rao from Varda.

Karan Thapar: I want to quote to you what you said to the PTI on June 11 2006. “I was named Rahul by Pandit Nehru, Idiraji named her son Rajiv, I named my son Rajiv, she named another son Sanjay, I named my second son Sanjeev.”

Rahul Bajaj: Correct.

Karan Thapar: You are very close families?

Rahul Bajaj: I think so, whether they think so or not I don’t know to be fair to them, because they have a reason to be unhappy that I have come to the Rajya Sabha.

Karan Thapar: Have you today damaged that relationship with the Congress party and more importantly with the Gandhi family?

Rahul Bajaj: The answer is categorical on my part. No.

Karan Thapar: What about Sonia Gandhi’s part?

Rahul Bajaj: Ask her. If a relationship of 70 years can be spoilt by such an action, that relationship is not worth having.

Karan Thapar: In other words if Sonia Gandhi has turned against you because of this, then it is not worth having a relationship with Sonia Gandhi. That’s what you are saying?

Rahul Bajaj: That’s what you are saying.

Karan Thapar: That’s what you said.

Rahul Bajaj: I didn’t say that. I said if a 70-year relationship with anybody can be lost because of an incident like this, then that relationship was not worth it and my relationship as you said is from the time of Gandhi, Nehru, Indiraji, Rajivji and now Soniaji.

Karan Thapar: But is it now a relationship in the past tense? Have you damaged it?