New Delhi:
Ace shooter Rajyavardhan Rathore quit the Indian Army and joined the BJP recently. Here are the highlights of an exclusive interview to NDTV.
Highlights:- Today's nature of politics is such that youth hate it.
- There is also a sense of helplessness and that helplessness is giving way to belief and hope. Belief that we need to be a part of it either by giving vote or by joining politics.
- Couple of months back I started telling my friends that I am thinking of joining politics.
It was a big thing for my wife. She knows if I am saying something, I am saying it from my heart. - It is very hard for my family as we don't have a political background.
- I would also be associated with shooting. I will also be soldier by heart.
- All of us are soldiers, if we have a cause and we work for it, we are soldiers.
- I think the nation right now needs a political soldier.
- You can't do justice to two things at the same time. I would like to do justice to India first.
- I will miss sports and army but they will remain with me.
- Army has been absolutely forgotten. Don't you take care of your employees. Just because it is a disciplined and organisation that is always ready to serve it does not mean you can forget them.