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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.