In this 2019 speech, PM Modi explained why the media loved Arun Jaitley. Yesterday was the former finance minister's second death anniversary.
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00:00Everyone will feel the lack of Mr. Arun
00:04In a way, the dictionary of memory,
00:08the encyclopedia,
00:10was completely full.
00:13He was a big fan of the media.
00:15Whatever he had to work hard for 8-10 hours to get,
00:19he could get it in 8-10 minutes if he wanted to meet Mr. Arun.
00:24He was sick.
00:26He was suffering from many problems.
00:30But till the last day,
00:33he neither wasted time to tell his story,
00:37nor did he tell anything for his health.
00:41Whenever he spoke,
00:44what was going on in the country,
00:46what is likely to happen in the future,
00:50how should we do it,
00:53when a client of his used to go to him for the first time,
00:58he used to come to him with great disappointment.
01:02He used to feel,
01:04where did they send me?
01:09When I was telling them my case,
01:12they were watching TV,
01:14ordering food.
01:17They did not listen to me.
01:20I don't know what will happen to me in court tomorrow.
01:22But when he used to listen to them in the court,
01:27he used to wonder,
01:29what talent does this person have?
01:33I had a hard time telling him a few of my stories.
01:38But he read them all.
01:42He understood my problem.
01:44And he stood up for a legal battle.
01:49And he won the case.
01:51And he was known for being a one-liner.
01:54He was a big fan of the media.
01:57Because he had to work hard for 8-10 hours to get what he wanted.
02:04If he met Mr. Arun, he would get it in 8-10 minutes.
02:07That this is what it means, this is what it means.
02:10And if you think this is wrong,
02:13if you think this is right, then fine.
02:15He used to help the media as well.
02:19I will always feel a lack.
02:22Because he had a complete memory dictionary of India's parliamentary history and governance system.
02:41And that is why whenever a thought comes to us,
02:45we easily say, look, this is what happened at that time.
02:49This is the background behind it.
02:52And in making the right decision,
02:54the memory of such old incidents plays a very big role.
03:01The methods of decision-making have an effect on it.
03:06And this ability of Mr. Arun.
03:08He was one of the financially affluent people in his life.
03:11So it was not difficult for him to stay in a five-star hotel, no matter which city he was in.
03:15But Mr. Arun never stayed out of the party system.
03:22And for the past 30-35 years,
03:27we both used to live in the same room in every working committee.
03:31Whether there was an AC in the room or not,
03:33whether there was a system or not,
03:35we used to live together there.
03:37Everyone will feel a lack of Mr. Arun.
03:41It is very difficult for me to say that I am giving my friend Anjali with respect.