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‘Delhi corrupted my brother’

Pravin Mahajan praises and damns Pramod, all in one breath.

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As the two-and-half-hour long chat draws to a close, Pravin Mahajan reminds one at once of Mark Antony and Brutus. When he is Antony, he damns Brutus — his brother Pramod Mahajan — with praise; while playing Brutus, Pravin tries to justify his deed, or misdeed, towards the same brother who is now cast in Caesar’s role.

In an exclusive interview to DNA, Pravin, presently out on a 14-day furlough, is full of praise for the late Pramod Mahajan, calling him “a great man” and “a towering figure”. In the same breath, Pravin says he could not see his sister-in-law Rekha suffer any more; remember Brutus: ‘Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.’

In his book — Majha Album — he has explicitly talked about Pramod’s “womanising”, and he says, “I could not see my vahini (sister-in-law) suffer anymore. I knew her even before she became my sister-in-law. When my father died, she was the only outsider in our home. She stood by Pramod through thick and thin.”

“Rekha quietly sold her gold ring to buy a ring for my wife Sarangi on our engagement. When the court asked her who Pramod loved the most, she pointed towards me,” he says.

Pravin blames Delhi for corrupting Pramod, who hit big-time politics in the mid-1980s as one of the young turks in the BJP.

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