"You have to earn it from the people." Here's what Supriya Sule told Brut in 2022 about becoming her father's political heir...
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00:00Would you say you are your father's political heir today?
00:02Not at all.
00:03Public life is not an inheritance.
00:05Not at all.
00:06How can it be?
00:07My father, my brother don't decide whether I get elected.
00:10My vote is decided.
00:30In 2006, in a television interview, you had said, I don't see myself as my father's political heir.
00:48You said only time will tell.
00:49Blood is not the only thing that makes political heirs.
00:52Everyone says my father is Yashwant Rao's political heir.
00:55Let's see if I'm capable enough to inherit my father's legacy.
00:59Would you say you are your father's political heir today?
01:02Not at all.
01:03Why would it change from 2006 to 2000?
01:06I still stand.
01:08I don't.
01:08I stand by what I said.
01:10Public life is not an inheritance.
01:13Not at all.
01:14How can it be?
01:15You have to earn it from the people.
01:17People will decide.
01:18You can't decide.
01:19I fight for Lok Sabha.
01:21My father, my brother don't decide whether I get elected.
01:24My vote is decided.
01:25Voter is king like customer is king.
01:28Voter decides.
01:29Public life doesn't come by inheritance.
01:31But you have contested and you know, three times MP of course and won it from
01:35Baramati which was your father's seat as well.
01:39Wouldn't you say that, you know, also with you making a lot of statements, as I said,
01:45you've been very vocal.
01:46You've been in front of the media.
01:48You're talking about many things, maybe taking on the centre as well.
01:51Largely, we are seeing your face emerge as the face of NCP.
01:55Wouldn't you say that you are?
01:57You're just being very kind to me.
01:59That doesn't mean anything.
02:00And I feel what is wrong in being vocal?
02:03And what is wrong in being the truth?
02:05I only speak the truth.
02:07I think before I talk.
02:08I'm never impulsive or I'm not trying to grab headlines.
02:12Not at all.
02:12This is not a momentary thing.
02:14And please understand when somebody like me or any member of parliament speaks or anybody
02:18in a legislative position speaks, you have to think 10 times because it has repercussions
02:23and not only on you.
02:25Who am I?
02:25I'm a nobody.
02:27There is.
02:28Why have you interviewed me today?
02:30You have bought Baramati and me being an MP n number of times.
02:33It's countless, actually.
02:35So it comes with the job.
02:37So you have to be very, very responsible for whatever actions you do, because your stakeholders
02:44cannot.
02:44It's not about me.
02:45It's about my stakeholders.
02:46So I'm very conscious of my stakeholders at all times.
02:49So Supriya Sule is not the face of the NCP.
02:54She is.
02:55How do you see your political, your own political, you know, legacy at this point?
03:00I am a great team player.
03:03And I'd like to believe that, that others also think the same about me.
03:07I like to believe that I do everything to protect all my stakeholders.
03:12Of course, there's scope of improvement always in life.
03:15And it's a journey that you keep making.
03:17And I make mistakes every day.
03:18I only bite as much as I can chew.