1 00:00:00,959 --> 00:00:04,799 (phone rings) 2 00:00:04,799 --> 00:00:09,458 Venkat: Hi, Morning Radia: Morning(wearily), I am going to call you actually. You know about this electoral thing. 3 00:00:09,458 --> 00:00:15,610 Venkat: Ha, you— Radia: Sorry you go ahead. 4 00:00:15,610 --> 00:00:18,668 Venkat: no, you know on this electoral trusts reports and all that came in Radia: Hmm, 5 00:00:18,668 --> 00:00:23,276 Venkat: Boss had called Dinesh Vyas and told him to issue clarifications saying, it is not a Tata Electoral trust, 6 00:00:23,276 --> 00:00:28,417 Radia: We did that. Venkat: OK, he says let Dinesh Vyas issue the statement. 7 00:00:28,417 --> 00:00:31,759 Radia: well, the word because, I will tell you what it is, 8 00:00:31,759 --> 00:00:35,059 Radia: because it is called Tata- Venkat: Uhuh. 9 00:00:35,059 --> 00:00:40,946 Radia: you are going like, it looks like, we have said it, if you see the Business Standard, it has carried our statement. It says it is an independent trust. 10 00:00:40,946 --> 00:00:44,555 Venkat: No it is not a Tata electoral trust, it is not even called a Tata Electoral Trust. 11 00:00:44,555 --> 00:00:48,374 Radia: (slightly weary) what is it called? Venkat: It is called The Electoral Trust, that's all. 12 00:00:48,374 --> 00:00:53,749 Radia: So where did the word - the letter, they have even published the letter, in—in Bengal. 13 00:00:53,749 --> 00:00:59,372 Venkat: No— ummm (pause)—- you have a copy of the letter? 14 00:00:59,372 --> 00:01:06,028 Radia: The letter is on my email, I will just forward it to you. Its come in Prathidin. 15 00:01:06,028 --> 00:01:11,148 Radia: The thing is— I will send it you just now. The thing is Venkat, there are two things here. 16 00:01:11,148 --> 00:01:17,292 Radia: One, If they were sending it, our heads up, it's a Tata thing right? 17 00:01:17,292 --> 00:01:23,699 Radia: Its still considered a Tata thing, this Dinesh—I know Tatas contribute to it, right? Venkat: Yeah. 18 00:01:23,699 --> 00:01:28,044 Radia: Ok, now the thing is that the moment that happens, he, the moment that's done, 19 00:01:28,044 --> 00:01:33,676 Radia: he needs to give us a heads up. You know last night— Venkat: Dinesh has whatever(mild laugh)— 20 00:01:33,676 --> 00:01:38,539 Radia: He is independent, is he? Venkat: Yeah, he is independent, quite independent. All the three trustees are independent. 21 00:01:38,539 --> 00:01:42,127 Venkat: How they allocate the proportion, we don't know. Radia: umm 22 00:01:42,127 --> 00:01:47,922 Venkat: just, of course, for our info, they tell us what it is. They tell Subedar for info. But they do their own. 23 00:01:47,922 --> 00:01:53,942 Venkat: All the three trustees are, Mr.(Ardeshir) Dubash (Industrialist), Mr.Dinesh(Vyas, Supreme Court Advocate) and Shireen Bharucha(Social Worker), who has nothing to do with— 24 00:01:53,942 --> 00:01:57,042 Radia: Ok, the thing is that if the letter said— 25 00:01:57,042 --> 00:01:59,854 Venkat: It's not even Tata Electoral Trust also. It's called The Electoral Trust. 26 00:01:59,854 --> 00:02:04,448 Radia: Ok, if now that's the case, I am now wondering how the word Tata came in, 27 00:02:04,448 --> 00:02:09,615 Radia: unless its mentioned in the letter, that I will get it now. Venkat: anyway, people know that Dinesh Vyas is— 28 00:02:09,615 --> 00:02:15,478 Venkat: this thing(voice trails off), Mr.A.D.Dubash, Shireen Bharucha and Dinesh, they are the trustees. 29 00:02:15,478 --> 00:02:20,591 Venkat: Of course the contribution to the trust comes from the Tata group companies. 30 00:02:20,591 --> 00:02:26,148 Venkat: But how it is distributed, to whom it is distributed, its is entirely upto the trustees to distribute it based on the rules. 31 00:02:26,148 --> 00:02:31,348 Radia: Yeah. You know where it started from? She(Mamta Banerjee) gave an interview to StarAnanda yesterday. 32 00:02:31,348 --> 00:02:36,956 Radia: And she showed the letter and the cheque. 33 00:02:36,956 --> 00:02:39,300 Venkat: Just forward me the letter, I will just have a look. 34 00:02:39,300 --> 00:02:44,159 Radia: Yes, the letter appeared in her paper, Prathidin, this morning, front page—it's in every Bengali paper. 35 00:02:44,159 --> 00:02:49,271 Radia: And it's just that you know, the fact that— 36 00:02:49,271 --> 00:02:53,353 Radia: one I didn't know that you give it to them after an election is over. So— Venkat: They do it in two parts. 37 00:02:53,353 --> 00:02:58,986 Venkat: One before the election based on number of seats and after the election based on the number of seats they won— Radia: Which is fair enough. 38 00:02:58,986 --> 00:03:03,871 Venkat: That's how DMK also got. DMK didn't get in the first this thing. 39 00:03:03,871 --> 00:03:08,977 Venkat: After the election DMK also got based on the number of seats. They accepted. Everybody accepted, except CPM and, BSP did not accept. 40 00:03:08,977 --> 00:03:13,552 Venkat: All others accepted. They've got Sonia Gandhi also accepted. 41 00:03:13,552 --> 00:03:18,149 Venkat: Everybody has accepted. 42 00:03:18,149 --> 00:03:23,038 Radia: So maybe when he has to issue the statement, he has to say that every other political party has accepted, except for the three. 43 00:03:23,038 --> 00:03:26,893 Venkat: Yeah, except whomsoever who have not accepted. He should say, we distribute it to everybody, not only— (Call ends aprubtly).