Unlike his father who was forced by circumstances to enter politics, Rahul suggested that he never had any other career in mind. Asked if he would still be in politics if his father were alive, Rahul remembered how he saw his father working tirelessly for people. “I would ask him ‘Papa, why are you doing it, why are you mingling with the crowd?’ But he did not stop. As long as he was in politics, he worked for you (youth).”

The Amethi MP reminisced how Rajiv was attacked by people, who are “big leaders in the opposition” now, when his father talked about computer. “I saw how his entire efforts were sought to be negated. It had a deep influence on me. Were my father alive, I wouldn’t have taken some other path,” he said.