“‘Meri fat-ti thi wo kisko bataoon?’ Sushilkumar Shinde inadvertently admits even as Home Minister he was scared of visiting Lal Chowk during Congress rule”, Opindia, September 10, 2024:
“On Tuesday (10th September), former UPA Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde revealed that he was “scared” when he visited Srinagar’s Lal Chowk despite being the country’s Home Minister. The senior Congress leader noted that while the public lauded the Home Minister for not being fearful, he couldn’t tell anyone that he was scared in Lal Chowk.
Notably, he made these remarks during the launch of his memoir ‘Five Decades in Politics’. Recalling his 2012 visit to the Kashmir valley, Shinde said, “Before I became the Home Minister, I visited him (educationist Vijay Dhar). I used to ask him for advice. He advised me to not roam around but to visit Lal Chowk (in Srinagar), meet people and go around Dal Lake.”
He added, “That advice gave me publicity and people thought that here is a Home Minister who goes there without any fear, lekin meri fat’ti thi wo kisko bataoon? (but who do I tell that I was scared?) I told you this just to make you laugh, but an ex-Policeman can’t speak like this……..”
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