•With me today, just 72 hours after the serial blasts that shook Jaipur and took so many lives, is a very grim but confident Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje. Welcome to Walk the Talk, and I’m so grateful to you for finding the time... we know it’s your first interview after the blasts and you are still catching your breath.

But I think it was also important that I talked to you about it. We need to instil that kind of confidence in the people of our state.

•Seventy-two hours later and wiser, how do you look back on this period?

First of all, ours is a very peace-loving state. So for something like this to happen -- in Rajasthan -- is a huge shock, not just to me, but I think to the ordinary citizen also. I would say here that we have responded magnificently to this, whether it’s the government, the people, the professionals -- everybody has risen to the occasion. Nine blasts, one after the other, we actually saw this happen on Tuesday, May 13. I’m happy to say that the response has been terrific. I was in Jodhpur when I heard about it. I was back on the air force flight by 11:30 in the night. By the time I got to the hospital it was about 12 o’clock. Within 15 minutes of this happening, the people had been brought into hospital; the medical teams had swung into action. By 2 o’clock in the morning, all serious operations -- almost 24 of them -- had been performed. And the situation was almost under control.

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