Q: When you had merged your party with BJP, everybody thought that you will get important role in the govt if BJP forms the govt. But today you are not part of the govt. You are neither in parliament nor in party's decision making body. Is there a section of the party that feels threatened by you?
Swamy: I don't know. I joined BJP on the recommendation of Narendra Modi. This is something only Modi can answer. I also go every day to address the meetings of VHP and RSS. You must have noticed everybody was going to Gujarat Bhawan but I didn't go there.
Q: Final question. How is it that You are so resourceful in terms of information that not many people are privy to. What is the secret? How do you manage all this?
Swamy: It's built over many years. And I have some advantages. I was educated in Delhi. DPS - From Class 1 to 12. Then I did B.A. from Delhi. Then I was IIT professor also.
Second, my class mates ended up being secretaries. My father was a secretary. My father-in-law was an ICS man. So it's a huge network. But most important of all, I never betrayed anybody for giving me information. I have tried to help people. So it's the confidence in them that if Swamy seeks any information then he'll not betray you, he'll act on it. In this whole 2G case, Raja's secretary came here and gave it to me.
Q: So all the corrupt people are now afraid of Dr Subramanian Swamy.
Swamy: Yeah, I know that. Not in other parties only but in my party as well.
Q: Don't you think you would have been a better journalist with your vast network?
Swamy: You want me to leave politics? Then you must be a friend of Sonia Gandhi. If I had been a professor, I would have got Nobel prize in economics. I was the joint author of world's most famous paper on the theory of index numbers with Paul Samuelson and he himself declared that Swamy will get Nobel prize if he writes two more such articles. But I gave it up, I came to this country, suffered for it because I joined Jansangh, big mistake as people thought. But I wanted to join because I wanted to bring about ‘Hindu Renaissance'.
