•Welcome to Walk The Talk. I’m Shekhar Gupta and my guest this week is BJP president Rajnath Singh at the peak of the election campaign.

•Rajnathji, welcome to Walk The Talk.

Thank you very much.

•The biggest thing is that you managed to make time to appear on our show, these days it must be difficult for you to even get a few hours of sleep.

Whenever you will want time it will be found. It has been managed earlier also.

•But these days there’s a lot of pressure. Are you able to sleep?

There is definitely a lot of pressure because the election campaign has begun.

•And the ticket distribution process is underway..

The ticket distribution exercise is complete in most of the states except for a few seats in Rajasthan.

•But when there is pressure on the party chief during the ticket distribution it means the party’s not doing too badly.

No, because the states that are going to the polls, currently six states are going to the polls, we are sure that in four states the BJP will manage to get a clear majority and form

•And in which two states will the BJP not form a government? J&K?

I will not make this assertion about J&K that we’ll get a clear majority and Mizoram too..But Delhi, Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh…

•Rajasthan ,MP, Chhattisgarh, do you mean you’ll win inspite of the anti-incumbency factor?

Because our governments have done such good work in these 3 states the acceptance among the masses of our CMs and our government has only grown. Which is why I’m convinced that the anti-incumbency factor will not affect us very much. Even if I do concede the effect of anti-incumbency to an extent then you are aware that the there is a Congress-led UPA govt at the Centre which has failed on all fronts , so the huge anti-incumbency against the Congress govt will nullify whatever little effect of anti-incumbency there may be against our govts.

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