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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?