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Exclusive: Read full interview of Arun jaitley to Rajat Sharma in Aap Ki Adalat (Part I)

New Delhi: In an exclusive interview to India TV editor-in-chief Rajat Sharma on his popular ‘Aap Ki Adalat' show, Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha and senior BJP leader Arun Jaitley opened up on a

India TV News Desk Updated on: April 28, 2014 8:13 IST



RS:
Finally, please answer this. You are in politics. You are not a saint.  So what will you be in Narendra Modi govt?

AJ: People like me who are disciplined since childhood have learnt that we have to discharge all the responsibilities that we are entrusted with. I always believe that becoming a party member is also like doing injustice to yourself because you lose your freedom. You have to do what your party asks you to do. If you get justice then feel glad and if you don't get justice even then you have to accept it smilingly. So I'll accept whatever responsibility is given to me.
 
RS: Your opponents say that you are a pseudo Punjabi.

AJ: Somebody asked me this question two days back. The' Punjabiyat' of a Punjabi is never lost irrespective of which part of India or world he is living in. If you look at my family background, my mother and grandparents were from Amritsar; my cousins, numbering around 50, are from here. My father was from Lahore. My mother, sister, wife were all born here. Parents shifted to Delhi after partition. I was born there but I kept visiting this place. If you ask me about my ancestral place,now I can't go to Lahore and I have no other place to go except Amritsar.  Now I don't understand the meaning of ‘Pseudo Punjabi'.

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