Union steel minister Birender Singh shared his experience, especially the difference between his Congress years and now his role as a minister in the NDA government; India’s steel industry; the menace of mob lynching; his home-state Haryana and the dry wit of the people from the state. In between, the BJP leader also cracked a few jokes.
From left: Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, ThePrint; Kumar Anshuman, Associate Editor, ThePrint; Birender Singh, Union Minister of Steel
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From left: Bharat K. Reddy, Chief Representative, J.P. Morgan; Usha Uppal, Director – Finance & Operations, ThePrint; Naveen Jindal, Chairman, JSPL Corporate
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From left: Birender Singh; Shekhar Gupta
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From left: Dr. Vivek Gupta, Cardiologist, Apollo Hospital; Navroze Dhondy, Founder & MD, Creatigies Communications; Rajiv Rattan, Co-founder, Indiabulls Group; Naveen Jindal, Chairman, JSPL Corporate; Surinder Rathi, Director, NALSA; Dalbir Singh, National Secretary, All India Congress Committee
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Kalyani Shankar, Contributing Editor, ThePrint
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From left: Utkarsh Amitabh, Founder, Network Capital; Nipun Malhotra, Founder, Wheels For Life
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From left: Mark Tully, former Bureau Chief, BBC, New Delhi
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Birender Singh said: “Haryana is an action-oriented state, and is against anti-establishment politics.”
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“India should never be reservation-free because the exploitation, maybe of SC and other communities in this country, is not recent happenings. For centuries, we were being exploited by the upper strata of the society and we deserve all kinds of reservation,” Singh told the audience.
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