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00:00 What really triggered you basically to shift over to Ekanath Shinde?
00:05 Was there any kind of a neglect or a suffocation that led to or was there a kind of, you know,
00:11 as usual, there is a supremacy of a male dominated world in the Uddhav Thakralela Chusena, which
00:17 could not give you an opportunity to function.
00:20 Can you just throw a light on this and really are you getting adjusted with a new environment
00:25 now?
00:26 One thing I will say that when I joined in 98, Chusena, there was also bipolarization
00:33 and basically I was much on the side of ND at that time also because one, I come from
00:41 anti-congressism all my studenthood and Dr. Ramanur Lohia's bigger Congress Vath.
00:49 So keeping that in mind, George Fernandes and Rambila Spaswan, everybody was going through
00:54 different rivers were going from socialism to NDA.
00:58 So either the one option was to be part of that process at the national level and join
01:03 them and be a part of a smaller party.
01:06 While as a born and brought up, not born, but brought up in Mumbai, definitely I could
01:11 understand the relevance of being Marathi, relevance of working at the local level because
01:15 I was already very active at the international level.
01:18 But what I thought that if I will be able to share all this knowledge through English
01:22 to other countries, but how what happens to women in the Maharashtra and I felt that my
01:27 roots are so strong here.
01:29 So I must think about local women and so I decided to join Chusena at that time.
01:35 Now I have got two points.
01:37 One is that Eknath Shinde is leading Chusena, that Chusena does believe in all the same
01:43 principles which was initiated by Supremo Balasaheb Thackeray.
01:48 It is related with giving priority to local people, also it is related with Mumbai with
01:53 new vision, 95 to 99 all the developmental factors which was taken by Shoshai government.
02:00 These are being taken forward even by Devendra Fadanwes since 2015.
02:04 And secondly, I would say lack of communication on the leadership side.
02:08 I won't mind having only, I would say there can be different type of interactive procedures
02:16 which may be different than other parties, but if there is no feedback or no advice or
02:23 no guidance coming from the leadership other than accusing each other every day, whole
02:29 day that is the only agenda.
02:31 So 80% of social work and 20% of politics, so it has become to 100% of mudslinging on
02:39 each other.
02:40 That was the only agenda which was left for the social workers who are aiming and looking
02:45 at Balasaheb Thackeray's strategies and his policies.
02:47 So keeping this in mind, I waited for one year, I thought that party which is led by
02:53 Uddhav Thackeray, they will be able to try to have introspection.
02:58 What is wrong somewhere?
02:59 It could have been power, but other than that also many people were leaving the parties
03:05 who are already ex-MLAs or ex-MPs.
03:08 So they did see hope in Eknath Shinde, that is number one.
03:12 Personally I felt that instead of waiting all the time, it's better to take a stand
03:17 because not taking a stand, what lessons we have learnt from Ambedkar movement, sometimes
03:23 the local, our activist becomes totally demoralized and slowly he or she becomes inactive and
03:29 some of them who need their sacrifice, there are generations after generations, but there
03:36 is a political gain they don't have anything, even work for a service to people, it is not
03:41 possible.
03:42 So maybe I felt that it's better to save Shiv Sena with Eknath Shinde.
03:47 And Tai, in your latest book, you said as if you felt like you should die.
03:53 That was a kind of a point at which you have arrived while remaining with Uddhav Thackeray.
03:58 What was that which has really given you much of trouble when you were there in that camp?
04:03 Basically, lack of communication and the way it was being centralized within party, you
04:09 get a feeling that you are not at all welcome and you are not wanted into the decision making
04:15 process at all.
04:16 So slowly and slowly you understand that maybe instead of closing the door towards you, first
04:23 they closed their door in their mind initially, then in intellectual, then in Matoshree, then
04:29 in Shiv Sena Bhavan and finally from their life.
04:33 So that was something otherwise quite disheartening to me and I was feeling that there were people,
04:39 they were suggesting me that why don't you change your leadership and I told them that
04:45 I will die with the same saffron.
04:47 But that's why I was waiting to die instead of taking any other ways for politics.
04:53 But then I thought that if people, women like me are thinking like that also is not right
04:58 on my side because we have to give courage and confidence to people and for that I have
05:03 to be torchbearer of this process.
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