• But if he agrees, it’ll be okay by you.

Certainly.

• Then how will you deal with India, where is he is wanted man for Rajiv Gandhi’s assassination.

After that only we have to discuss it. What India wants.

• What do you think India wants?

I mean, whether India is serious about getting him down.

• What do you think? He allegedly killed one of our most loved leaders.

For that I think India will never pardon him.

• Let me ask you, since you are such a wonderful candid person, and request an honest answer: Do you think India, after Rajiv’s assassination, has been soft on people who carried out the assassination?

I don’t want to make any comment about it but the attitude was changing from one to the other, because, you know, you have to study Indian politics too, the southern politics. . .

• They have become kingmakers.

Yes. So you have to balance any government that comes to power at the Centre.

• Do you have any advice for the Indian government on how to proceed on the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case? Or, if you had been in the Indian government’s place, how would you have acted to bring the accused in the Rajiv Gandhi assassination case to trial?

As soon as possible I would have asked them to get them down.

• And you think the Indian Government has not.

No, I think they know they can’t catch him.

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