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187 lines
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00:00:00,959 --> 00:00:04,799
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(phone rings)
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00:00:04,799 --> 00:00:09,458
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Venkat: Hi, Morning
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Radia: Morning(wearily), I am going to call you actually. You know about this electoral thing.
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00:00:09,458 --> 00:00:15,610
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Venkat: Ha, you—
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Radia: Sorry you go ahead.
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00:00:15,610 --> 00:00:18,668
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Venkat: no, you know on this electoral trusts reports and all that came in
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Radia: Hmm,
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00:00:18,668 --> 00:00:23,276
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Venkat: Boss had called Dinesh Vyas and told him to issue clarifications saying, it is not a Tata Electoral trust,
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Radia: We did that.
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Venkat: OK, he says let Dinesh Vyas issue the statement.
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Radia: well, the word because, I will tell you what it is,
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Radia: because it is called Tata-
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Venkat: Uhuh.
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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.
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Venkat: No it is not a Tata electoral trust, it is not even called a Tata Electoral Trust.
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Radia: (slightly weary) what is it called?
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Venkat: It is called The Electoral Trust, that's all.
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Radia: So where did the word - the letter, they have even published the letter, in—in Bengal.
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00:00:53,749 --> 00:00:59,372
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Venkat: No— ummm (pause)—- you have a copy of the letter?
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Radia: The letter is on my email, I will just forward it to you. Its come in Prathidin.
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00:01:06,028 --> 00:01:11,148
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Radia: The thing is— I will send it you just now. The thing is Venkat, there are two things here.
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Radia: One, If they were sending it, our heads up, it's a Tata thing right?
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Radia: Its still considered a Tata thing, this Dinesh—I know Tatas contribute to it, right?
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Venkat: Yeah.
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00:01:23,699 --> 00:01:28,044
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Radia: Ok, now the thing is that the moment that happens, he, the moment that's done,
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00:01:28,044 --> 00:01:33,676
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Radia: he needs to give us a heads up. You know last night—
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Venkat: Dinesh has whatever(mild laugh)—
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Radia: He is independent, is he?
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Venkat: Yeah, he is independent, quite independent. All the three trustees are independent.
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00:01:38,539 --> 00:01:42,127
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Venkat: How they allocate the proportion, we don't know.
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Radia: umm
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Venkat: just, of course, for our info, they tell us what it is. They tell Subedar for info. But they do their own.
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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—
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Radia: Ok, the thing is that if the letter said—
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Venkat: It's not even Tata Electoral Trust also. It's called The Electoral Trust.
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00:01:59,854 --> 00:02:04,448
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Radia: Ok, if now that's the case, I am now wondering how the word Tata came in,
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00:02:04,448 --> 00:02:09,615
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Radia: unless its mentioned in the letter, that I will get it now.
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Venkat: anyway, people know that Dinesh Vyas is—
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00:02:09,615 --> 00:02:15,478
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Venkat: this thing(voice trails off), Mr.A.D.Dubash, Shireen Bharucha and Dinesh, they are the trustees.
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Venkat: Of course the contribution to the trust comes from the Tata group companies.
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00:02:20,591 --> 00:02:26,148
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Venkat: But how it is distributed, to whom it is distributed, its is entirely upto the trustees to distribute it based on the rules.
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Radia: Yeah. You know where it started from? She(Mamta Banerjee) gave an interview to StarAnanda yesterday.
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Radia: And she showed the letter and the cheque.
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Venkat: Just forward me the letter, I will just have a look.
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Radia: Yes, the letter appeared in her paper, Prathidin, this morning, front page—it's in every Bengali paper.
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Radia: And it's just that you know, the fact that—
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00:02:49,271 --> 00:02:53,353
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Radia: one I didn't know that you give it to them after an election is over. So—
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Venkat: They do it in two parts.
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Venkat: One before the election based on number of seats and after the election based on the number of seats they won—
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Radia: Which is fair enough.
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00:02:58,986 --> 00:03:03,871
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Venkat: That's how DMK also got. DMK didn't get in the first this thing.
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Venkat: After the election DMK also got based on the number of seats. They accepted. Everybody accepted, except CPM and, BSP did not accept.
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Venkat: All others accepted. They've got Sonia Gandhi also accepted.
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00:03:13,552 --> 00:03:18,149
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Venkat: Everybody has accepted.
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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.
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Venkat: Yeah, except whomsoever who have not accepted. He should say, we distribute it to everybody, not only—
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(Call ends aprubtly).
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