"Onto to the next question. Why did you break away from Congress? From the information we have, it was almost a done deal that you will become the Party President in the future. Is it just a political stunt?"
"No. I am someone who hates nepotism. Just because I come from a family doesn't mean that I deserve to be the party leader. That's why I am starting small to prove myself."
"You could have done it from the Congress party itself, right?"
"It's not like I didn't try. I wasn't allowed to contest BMC elections around ten years ago. It was decided from the very beginning that I will have to contest from either Raibareli or Amethi. In Lok Sabha only.
Plus, it was a humongous task to clean such a corrupt, and anti-national party. Some of the top position holders have such vile mentality that makes me want to...
Anyway, it is filled with powerful gangsters too, and the advisors are so vile that for winning elections, they are willing to slaughter Hindus, Sikhs, and any religion, but not do anything for upliftment of their community. They just fool the muslim community, use them for votes, and look the other way when some 1% of their extremist commit riots and genocide, and give Muslims a bad name.
I am telling you this as an insider. In 10 or 15 years, 20 years at max, Congress wouldn't even win 20-30 seats in Lok Sabha. Mainly BP and BJP will be opposition and ruling party or reverse.
And when that happens, they will even conspire with foreigners, be it China, USA, or even a terrorist country like Pakistan. They will actively try to defame the army.
And my brother, Rahul will be the one who will act on the desires of those advisors.
Congress party is so vile that it isn't even admitting that Kashmir, the genocides going on there, the 84 anti-Sikh riots, and such are its mistakes.
When I said that Article 370 needs to be abolished, they actually laughed, telling me that I still need to learn politics.
I tried to make the party better. For more than 10 years. Many youth agreed with me, and they have joined BP. But old people's mentality can't be changed. Instead of trying to fire 70-80% of the party, of which many are either gangsters, or have connections to it, it was better that I myself get out of the party."
"Then why did you wait until January, when Congress had spent so much money on your publicity?"
"Because I didn't have enough money for campaign."
"You are currently the richest politician in the country. Your net worth yesterday was 912 million dollars."
"I am not the richest. I am a baby compared to others. The difference is that I have made every single rupee that I own, every transaction I have made from the age of six, even the pocket money I received, public.
If you dig around other politicians, you will find many richer than Bill Gates. Mother is one of them.
What they do is, stash away their black money and assets in the name of low-ranking party members, shell companies in tax havens like Dubai, Swiss Banks, etc.
Robert Vadra, Priyanka's husband is such a businessman who has connections like that to take out the tax money out of the country. When CBI will investigate them, so much money will come out that we won't be able to even count the zeroes in it.
And even if my Net Worth may be more than 900 millions, around 650 million or something is my 10% stake in Apple, using which I will force Apple to do atleast 75% of its manufacturing and assembling in India. We can't compete with China right now in manufacturing just by using conventional means.
And much of the other things of my net worth cones from properties on which BP offices are opened, and are in the middle of construction. There is also the fact that I have to pay for educating the party members on administration and other things. Conferences, seminars, etc. also take huge amount of money.
The burden will be somewhat lifted when the MPs and MLAs will contribute atleast 10% of their salaries and pensions. I myself will contribute every single rupee I get to the BP education fund.
Our party is very unconventional. Normally, soneone who has huge amount of money can be the only ones who can contest elections. But in our case, we have a proper structure, where anyone, from any background can rise to the top.
One just needs to show results. Party will take care of the money problems. But one needs to do a phenomenal job so that party has to spend less on campaign. You can get demoted as easily as you can get promoted.
Money, is important in elections. Being a member of our party means a proper and respectable job. Not disguising as public servants with white plain kurta and white plain sarees, and looting the public.
So I tried to save as much money as I could."
"And wasting Congress's money in scrapping all the posters with your face on it."
"Yes. The more loss Congress faces, the better it is for the country. Just let the RTI and Lokpal bills be passed that we plan to introduce in Lok Sabha. We will then get to know just how many billionaire politicians are actually there. And most will come from Congress."
"Then it means that you plan to target your family, your mother and siblings too?"
"Yes."
"Does your family has some issues? From our sources, you once gave Rahul Gandhi a WWF move, Chokeslam and broke a bed."
"Your information is incomplete and false. I think I was around 12-13 years old at that time. So it wasn't a serious fight like you are implying. It was a normal sibling fight that always happen. And I didn't give him Chokeslam. He was much taller than me at that time. I gave him powerbomb."
"How do you do the move?"
"Well, you basically kick the opponent in the gut to make him bow a little, than you lift him up like this, and slam them. And ah! No bed was broken. I gave it him on the mattress."
"Why did you fight?"
"He ruined my drawing that I spent four hours on, by spilling water all over it. He always ruins thing. Sometimes stepping on my rangoli, and one time almost even caused me to catch fire on Diwali by dropping a diya on my saree."
"Oh... So you mean to say that he isn't capable of leading Congress party?"
"Well, he should be the one to lead it. Who doesn't like free campaign to vote against Congress? I really want Rahul to become Congress party's president. It will be really helpful if he takes in the reign right now and does rallies in Maharashtra and Karnataka."
"I see... Many people have started to compare you to your grandmother, Indira Gandhi, and Gandhiji. How do you feel about it?"
"I despise it-"
"Huh!? Why?"
"Of course I despise such illogical comparison? Who wants to be compared by dictators who played a huge role in destroying our country?"
"I can understand calling Indira Gandhi a dictator, given the emergency, but Gandhiji?"
"Gandhiji was not the dictator that will arrest you for speaking against him like my grandmother. He was the kind of dictator that silenced his opponents by his hypocritical peaceful protests, which didn't do much to effect the conscience of racist Britishers, who didn't consider us anything more than cash cow.
And they like eating beef.
He started the Khilafat movement after WW1. No, not started, but fully supported. In our biased, propaganda filled NCERT books, it is stated as a move to improve Hindu-Muslim unity.
But, it was actually the starting point of ideas of Pakustan.
Khilafat movement was to establish a theocracy in Turkey after Ottoman Empire disintegrated. Theocracy. In Turkey. And history says it all about what happens when theocratic powers rise.
Jinnah, the biggest traitor and monster in our modern history, who called for genocides of Hindus and Sikhs in Direct Action Day, advised Gandhi against it. Because it was too extremists.
Gandhiji never left his dictatorial tendencies. When Pakistan was invented out of our land, a country's whose whole identity is to kill India, he started pressuring the Indian government to give Pakistan the money from RBI. The money it used to attack us.
There are many kinds of dictators. Most people think of a dictator as a sociopath killer, who kills any opposition. But, what is the actual meaning of dictator?
Dictator is one who dictates. One who doesn't even consider what another person is saying.
Gandhiji was a soft dictator, and grandmother was a hard dictator.
I am not villainizing them. They did many good things. Gandhiji played a very crucial role in our independence struggle. Grandmother liberated Bangladesh and cut off Pakistan's cash cow. She made RAW which should have been made decades ago.
I never doubt that they didn't love the country. Put they dictated their policies. Those who opposed their ideology, they were removed.
Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose. B.R. Ambedkar, Savarkar, and many examples are there. Grandmother also just kept yes-people close to her, and kept everyone intimidated.
Power got into her head. Perhaps she believed that she was the only one who could do things right? I don't know. People who believe that they are right are very dangerous.
There was a suggestion that a member from Dharavi gave me. He told me that if Dharavi is redeveloped, the migrants will not have any cheap place to stay temporarily. My political career depends on Dharavi. If I was like my Gandmother, I would have excluded him from the party, perhaps fired him.
But I talked with him, and everyone who joined BP from Dharavi. We debated. I recognised that he had some point. There is a need for cheap temporary stay for migrants. And we made plans to build hygenic, cheap, housing in other regions of Mumbai. But Dharavi is in the heart of Mumbai, so by the end of the debate, we agreed upon the redevelopment by 80% majority. The debate is on the website.
But, I don't take after Grandmother, Great-grandfather, or even my father. I am me. Character isn't defined by genetics. Character is defined by what kind of people that give you advice.
I don't want anyone comparing me with either my grandmother, or Gandhiji, or anyone. I am Shreya Gandhi. That's all."