LJP Chief Chirag Paswan's Exclusive Interview | Lok Sabha Elections 2024 | India Today News

[Music] [Music] good to see you sir how are you good morning very well the politician who wanted to be a film star well I don't know whether I wanted but then surely no one else wanted but every time I see you I think about your late father and I remember of course that you wanted to be a film star one day what's your first love filmar politics no it has to be politics I mean you can accuse me of being a nepo kid but uh but this is what I've seen all through my life and this is what comes naturally to me is the reason why I couldn't do anything good there when I was there NE kid I like the way you're one of the few politicians who openly admitting that you're a kid that blesss but you're slowly but surely caring out an image for yourself last couple of years have been tough but you've uh you're now a crowd puller believe well I would want to believe so and uh but then yes Papa's blessings been there yes last 2 three years were very very very difficult but uh but before we share the story why don't we why don't you join me for the breakfast let's do okay well we've already had one breakfast but uh the show is called election on my plate to extra breakfast [Music] please oh nice so is that typical bihari breakfast bihari breakfast there I think something it is this is B cha with Alo and everything mixed and and this is with in it these are all your various and Mas and so yes I'm in house bear House's is your 40 seats last time you all won 39 out of 40 this time how many honest answer this time everybody's saying down so you know what I mean I'm somebody who uh who do a lot of research myself and I worked with lot of datas and statistics myself so now when I I'll say 40 out of 40 I mean before you Cost question me on that I'll give you an answer why last time it was just three parties contesting together in 2019 it was BJP it was jadal United and it was J shaki party three of us this time we are five parties together you know we have two other parties which last time were with the opposition we have Jan Mai and we have upendra Kush so in terms of Alliance we are a bigger and a stronger Alliance this time and this makes me believe that uh that the one seat that we lost last time that was kishen Gan so we'll be winning that as well but the sense I get um chag also is that this Alliance is heavily dependent on Prime Minister Modi he's your trump card it's not about the chief minister it's about the Prime Minister nitish Kumar is your weakness Prime Minister Modi is your asset honest answer no you smile no I smile the way you you know you said it definitely not I mean see at least yes when you say that my prime minister is our trump card we have a trump card at least you know on the other side we have nobody you yourself have been very CR IAL of nitish Kumar you even took him on in the 2020 biar assembly elections is he a liability now whatever that you have said honestly speaking I don't agree to that my chief minister has I mean debatable less or more but then he has made his own CER you know he has beened his own support group and which is standing by uh by him very very very strongly is the reason why I would not want to believe that he's the weakling rather he has made our alliance even stronger there are two uh young politicians both were seen as nepo kids at one time and both seem to be coming into their own you're on one side Tas y on the other you see yourself as the future Battle of Bihar chag paswan versus Tas yadav could you come together one day I don't see a competition honestly speaking and I've been accused and blamed for the same because I I actually believe that it's my extended family you know you know I want to say something at the end this is a very nostal Bic because I remember coming here in the early 1990s and interviewing your late father and interviewing luu g at the time there was another Bihar election in the early '90s and here I am interviewing the next generation chag pasan will be now going and meeting the other gen next leader here in Bear elections on my plate

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Length: 4min 54sec (294 seconds)

Published: Fri May 17 2024