Tehelka -- That’s two lakhs. Jaya -- Thank you very much.

Tehelka -- That’s two lakhs. Jaya -- Thank you very much.

(Major General Murgai (Retd), Additional Director-General, Quality Assurance, is introducing the ‘West End army company’ to Surendra Sulekha, an industrialist from Kanpur with strong links with the Defence Ministry. Sulekha has been supplying clothing to the Indian Army for the last 20 years and is close to Jaya Jaitly, Samata Party President.) Tehelka: Now we need a political cover....Work is that, if the company...two or four companies were short-listed,...The final decision will be taken by the Ministry of Defence...That means George, Mr George Fernandes.
(West End discusses with Gen Murgai how much they will pay for Sulekha’s involvement in getting the letter from General Chaudhary inviting them for a final trial of their products. Gen Murgai then informs Sulekha who will get what if Jaya Jaitly is introduced to West End by Sulekha.)

Murgai: We will give two to Jaya in that. Initially, And one for you and one for me. All right?
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Tehelka: When can you arrange the meeting, sir?
Sulekha: I’ll ask her today.
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Tehelka: Make that in a hotel. That is good. I don’t want to come here if you’re not coming.

Murgai (pointing to Sulekha): he’s got a house in Noida.

Tehelka: Okay. She will come there?
Sulekha: Either at my house or George Fernandes’ house.

Tehelka: That official house.
Sulekha: Official house....She will meet you just alone only. Nobody else will be there.
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(At the meeting at Defence Minister George Fernandes’ house, Surendra Sulekha, General Murgai, MP Srinivas Prasad and some others are there.)

Maj General Murgai: This company...
Jaya Jaitly: Please send this to our Minister...Mr Srinivas Prasad....he is hosting the National Council.

Tehelka: Okay, okay, okay.
Jaitly: We have two days where about 500-800 people will going...The National Council elects the National President...That is a once in two-year affair...So that process...
We need some help because he said, ‘‘Look, I can do 50 per cent expense. You do the rest.’’
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Tehelka: We need your blessing... also for this...our company....
Jaya Jaitly: Naturally, probably as far as I know because I don’t know much about these things, but you all have to..whenever some new entry into...entrant into the field, they have to test the things.
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Jaya: If there’s any way...if they are refusing to test it...that’s...then we can step into the picture....
If they don’t, we can always say, ‘‘Look, you musn’t treat anybody unfairly. Give everybody a chance.’’
Because, if we try to favour anybody particularly, specially when we don’t know a thing, we may be doing injustice to somebody else....But if we say, ‘‘Look, don’t do justice to anybody...’’And if somebody is being unfairly untreated, not being called...somebody else is being favoured and you’re not even being asked...then we’ll say, ‘‘Look, you please do because then there’s...it’s in our interest...it’s in the national interest to consider all.’’...
You then take the best, which is at the best price. So if any...that whole thing is going wrong, then we can step in if need be.’’
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First, you’d be applying. Then, you’ll naturally grab an opportunity to as them, ‘Look, I have applied. Are you going to respond to me at all?’’ If they say, ‘‘No, no, we can’t, we don’t know, we’ll let you know and they don’t sound very convincing, then we’ll see.
After a reasonable time, you can chat with them and say...send then a reminder. And then if they don’t, we can ask.
Murgai: You see, as Madam has very rightly brought out. Things are moving in the right direction.
Jaitly: Now when that happens, we don’t want anybody to feel that anybody has extra interest....Because we don’t have any extra interest in anybody. We have extra interest in the good quality and good price. In the interest of the nation, so that they don’t neglect you.

Tehelka: That’s two lakhs. Two lakhs.
Sulekha: Thank you very much.
Jaya: Thank you very much.