Off The Cuff with Birender Singh

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 […]

Sahiba Ahluwalia
25 July, 2018 06:02 pm IST

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.

Off The Cuff with Birender Singh

From left: Shekhar Gupta, Editor-in-Chief, ThePrint; Kumar Anshuman, Associate Editor, ThePrint; Birender Singh, Union Minister of Steel

Off The Cuff with Birender Singh

From left: Bharat K. Reddy, Chief Representative, J.P. Morgan; Usha Uppal, Director – Finance & Operations, ThePrint; Naveen Jindal, Chairman, JSPL Corporate

Off The Cuff with Birender Singh

From left: Birender Singh; Shekhar Gupta

Off The Cuff with Birender Singh

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

Off The Cuff with Birender Singh

Kalyani Shankar, Contributing Editor, ThePrint

Off The Cuff with Birender Singh

From left: Utkarsh Amitabh, Founder, Network Capital; Nipun Malhotra, Founder, Wheels For Life

Off The Cuff with Birender Singh

From left: Mark Tully, former Bureau Chief, BBC, New Delhi

Off The Cuff with Birender Singh

Birender Singh said: “Haryana is an action-oriented state, and is against anti-establishment politics.”

Off The Cuff with Birender Singh

“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.