A BJP Minister, A BBC Journalist, And An Unfinished Interview

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When the BBC asked this BJP minister about hate speeches in Haridwar, he walked out of the interview.

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00:00I don't want to talk to you.

00:02No, no, no.

00:04We are talking about elections.

00:06Sir, don't get angry.

00:08Sir, don't get angry.

00:10I don't want to talk to you.

00:12No, no, no.

00:30We are talking about elections.

00:56Dharmacharyas have the right to speak their mind.

01:00Why do you only talk about Hindu Dharmacharyas?

01:03Why don't you talk about the statements

01:05given by other Dharmacharyas?

01:08I am not talking about the Dharmasansad Bharati Janta Party.

01:11No, no, no.

01:12The Dharmasansad is not of the Bharati Janta Party.

01:14It is of the saints.

01:16What the saints say in their meetings,

01:18what they say in their work,

01:19what they don't say,

01:20it is their matter.

01:22Yati Narasimhan is from Ghaziabad.

01:26Anupurna is from Aligarh.

01:30The way they try to create an atmosphere…

01:34They don't try to create an atmosphere.

01:36They say what they think is right.

01:42You are bringing up questions

01:44that are not related to politics.

01:47I have not even seen

01:49the topic you are discussing with me.

01:52But when you talk about Dharmacharyas,

01:55why don't you talk about Hindu Dharmacharyas?

01:58There are Muslim Dharmacharyas as well.

02:00There are Christian Dharmacharyas as well.

02:02And what all are they talking about?

02:04Put all those three or four things together

02:05and ask a question.

02:06I will answer all your questions.

02:07If you tell me the topic first,

02:08I will prepare it and answer you.

02:10No, no.

02:11You are saying that

02:12there was a match between India and Pakistan

02:13and people made statements about it.

02:15And after that,

02:16there was a case of sedition.

02:18There was a case of treason.

02:20They were put in jail.

02:21Treason is a different topic.

02:23Don't associate treason with the rights of the people.

02:28If anyone in India

02:30uses the slogan of Pakistan Zindabad,

02:33it will not be signed.

02:34All the Dharmacharyas,

02:36all the communities,

02:38all the communities have this.

02:40They say what they want to say.

02:42What right does the All India Muslim Personal Law Board have

02:44that we do not accept sun namaskar?

02:46Don't do it.

02:47Who will not do it?

02:48These are videos, sir.

02:49I don't know which video you are talking about.

02:51You have come with a question.

02:53You have come with an election.

02:55Have you come with an election

02:56or have you come with another topic?

02:58No, no.

02:59I am talking about the election.

03:00Then you talk about the election.

03:01All this is happening around the election.

03:03No, it's not like that.

03:04Don't associate everything like this.

03:06You talk like a journalist.

03:08No, you are not talking like a journalist.

03:11You are like a special agent of someone.

03:14No, no.

03:15I am not talking to you.

03:17No, no.

03:18No, no.

03:19We are talking about the election.

03:21Don't talk like this.

03:23Sir, don't get angry.

03:24Don't talk like this.

03:25No, no.

03:26I am talking to you.

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