
Shekhar Gupta: Hello and welcome to Walk the Talk. I am Shekhar Gupta and my guest this week somebody who was Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's trouble shooter from the outside, if I may say so but now very much inside the Cabinet and somebody with a charge of which he must make success if this government has to achieve a fraction of what it has set out to. Mr Veerappa Moily, the new Law Minister, welcome to Walk the Talk.
Veerappa Moily: Thank you
Shekhar Gupta: You like my describing you as a trouble shooter from outside the last time?
Veerappa Moily: That is your perception. I can't find fault on your perception
Shekhar Gupta: (laughs) But you did carry out some important…
Veerappa Moily: Of course, many assignments had been given. Both by Dr. Manmohan Singh and also by our Congress President Soniaji and with utmost sincerity we just started those duties
Shekhar Gupta: Tell us some of those
Veerappa Moily: Maybe one of them maybe you know 93rd Amendment of the Constitution of India
Shekhar Gupta: Increasing reservation…
Veerappa Moily: Increasing reservation….there was a big furor…people said this will be the replay of the Mandal Commission and everything, all over. Everybody threatened and almost all the directors of the IIT and IIM. They said these institutions will be destroyed if you introduce that
Shekhar Gupta: Right
Veerappa Moily: you know, that kind of a surcharge atmosphere that Manmohan Singh had chosen to make me the chairman of…
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