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RAJESH

PILOT

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RAJESH

PILOT

A Biography

Rama Pilot

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Childhood Days

New Turns and Twists

Joining the Air Force

Life in the Air Force

Fighting in the 1971 War

Beginning of a New Life

Back on Track

Goodbye to the Air Force

Entering Politics

Family Life

A Fatal Crash

An Assassination and Another Election

The Jai Jawan Jai Kisan Trust

A Mammoth Farmers Rally

Yet Another Tragedy

Ministerial Roles

Rajesh Pilots Mission Kashmir

Tenth June

Eleventh June

Ram Ram Sa

INTRODUCTION

Many years ago, a ten-year-old lived in a hovel in Lutyens Delhi. Whether it was the scorching summer or the biting cold of winter, he would sleep in the pen for his cattle, a herd of buffaloes. When it rained, there was slushy mud everywhere. He would start his day with cutting grass for the cattle. Then he would milk them and deliver the produce to the posh bungalows of that VIP area.

After returning to his hovel, he would bathe quickly and get ready to go to school. His clothes were so shabby that his teachers would reprimand him and his classmates would taunt and ridicule him.

How his childhood days passed in that crushing struggle, cannot be fathomed. But he had a dream, an aspiration, which he did not allow to die. In fact, that dream was not his, but his fathers. His only ambition was to fulfil it anyhow and at any cost. And to fulfil it, the boy faced all kinds of difficulties and adversities cheerfully and courageously. He was like a flame fighting for its existence in stormy weather, fighting with full vigour for its survival. His fathers dream was that he should become an officer in the armed forces one day and it was his firm decision to achieve that goal for his fathers sake.

And finally that day did come, the day when he fulfilled his fathers dream. He was selected as a soldier in the Army. Then, later, he became an Air Force officer as a pilot, which is why he came to be known by his adopted surname Pilot which signified his identity when he joined politics. The nation now knows that great personality as Rajesh Pilot.

He was a brave pilot who fought in the war against Pakistan in 1971 and destroyed enemy positions. He then left the Air Force and joined politics. A committed social worker and concerned about the uplift and development of poor and downtrodden people, especially farmers and labourers, he devoted his political life to the people of this great country.

Who would have thought at the time that the boy who used to deliver milk to the posh Lutyens bungalows, would one day be a proud occupant of one of those bungalows. Also, it was beyond imagination to think that he would leave his permanent job as a pilot in the Indian Air Force and join politics. What was he thinking? Why did he abandon his dream job and join politics?

When he fought the elections, he won as many as six times and became a minister in the central government. As a minister, he formulated many policies with his own pen. He lived by the slogan of Jai Jawan Jai Kisan (Long live the soldier, long live the farmer), working with devotion and dedication. He had seen many ups and downs in his life, but never surrendered before any odds. A courageous person, he faced all obstacles with a smile and always remained deeply rooted in his soil. It is the story of such a man, who had risen from his childhood poverty to achieve success in public life, which will encourage thousands of Indian youth.

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