Can Politicians Ever Be Happy? Here's Gadkari's Take

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These Rajasthan MLAs couldn’t help laughing as BJP leader Nitin Gadkari threw shade at his own party and others...

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00:00When I was the president of the BJP, I didn't meet a single person who wasn't sad.

00:10I often say that politics is a game of compromises, compulsions, and limitations, and contradictions.

00:18I used to play cricket.

00:21For the first time, the school teachers used to scold me a lot because I used to bat for 4 or 6 from the first ball.

00:29I felt that only if you have the strength, you can play cricket.

00:33I once asked Sachin Tendulkar to come and stand next to me.

00:37I said, Sachin Tendulkar, that's all I have.

00:40He said, you hit so many sixes and strokes, you don't have any strength in your hands.

00:45He said, Nitinji, cricket is a game of skill.

00:51I even saw Sunil Gavaskar, who was 1 inch shorter than Joshiji.

00:59He used to come from a distance and hit sixes and sixes from big bowlers in Australia and the West Indies.

01:06Sunil Gavaskar used to hit sixes.

01:09I asked him, Sunilji, how is this?

01:11He said, Nitin, this is a game of skill.

01:15So, politics is also a game of skill.

01:18Problems are in front of everyone.

01:20There are problems in the party, outside the party, there are problems in the constituency,

01:25there are problems in the family, there are problems around.

01:28If you take someone forward, he says, give him a ticket, remove him.

01:32All are problems.

01:34Who doesn't have a problem?

01:36Someone asked, who among you is happy? Raise your hand.

01:39No one did.

01:40Because the MLA was sad because he couldn't become a minister.

01:46I am not saying this for you.

01:50The MLA was sad because he didn't get a good department.

01:56Those who didn't get a good department were sad because they couldn't become a chief minister.

02:03And those who could become a chief minister are sad because they don't know when they will stay and when they will leave.

02:09There was a poet by the name of Sharad Joshi.

02:12He was a very beautiful poet.

02:13Maybe you know that I am praising him a lot.

02:16He was a writer from Bhopal.

02:18He said, he wrote a beautiful poem.

02:22Those who were not useful in the state were sent to Delhi.

02:26Those who were not useful in Delhi were made governors.

02:30Those who could not become governors were made ambassadors.

02:35This works in all parties.

02:38When I was the president of the BJP, I didn't meet anyone who wasn't sad.

02:47I am very happy.

02:49A journalist asked me, why don't you like to eat every night?

02:52Sometimes I eat this, sometimes I learn how to shave myself.

02:56Sometimes I do social work for my show.

02:59I keep working according to my schedule.

03:01He said, you are very happy.

03:03You don't have any pain or sadness.

03:06Remember one thing.

03:08The one who worries about the future is sad.

03:12The one who has achieved more than his worth and status,

03:16the one who is happy about it, is the one who gets the solution.

03:23So be happy with what you have and keep playing like one day cricket.

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