Chapter 12 · Transcript archive
Speeches & interviews
Speeches in the House, keynotes, broadcast remarks and interviews. Each is dated, sourced and filed by type.
Quotations are reproduced exactly as they appear in the cited source and attributed to it. Where no verified wording exists, the entry gives a summary only.
Archive
- 28 Jul 2025Lok Sabha
Special discussion on “Operation Sindoor”
Took part in the Lok Sabha’s special discussion on Operation Sindoor. ETV Bharat reported his remarks about Congress MP Shashi Tharoor.
“My friend Shashi Tharoor Ji, who is a good speaker, is not allowed to speak by his party”
- 26 Jul 2025Interview, reported by Business Today
The Income-Tax Bill, 2025
Explained the purpose of the new Income-Tax Bill, which the select committee he chaired had examined.
“The law has become complicated. It is 64 years old and has undergone more than 4,000 amendments.”
- 21 Jul 2025Lok Sabha
Report of the Select Committee on the Income-Tax Bill, 2025
As chairperson, presented the select committee’s report and laid the record of evidence on the Table of the House.
- 24 May 2025Remarks to DD News, Bahrain
All-party delegation outreach
Spoke to the public broadcaster on the delegation’s arrival in Bahrain.
“The most important message is the unity that India has demonstrated to the world.”
- 20 May 2025CNN-News18 (interviewer: Shivani Gupta)
Operation Sindoor and the planned delegation
Television interview ahead of the all-party delegation’s departure.
- Feb 2025The Week (interviewer: Pratul Sharma)
Delhi Assembly election, 2025
Interview as the BJP’s Delhi election in-charge. The published headline: “Clean Yamuna is going to be the centrepiece of the symbol of Delhi”.
- 3 Feb 2025ThePrint (interviewer: Neelam Pandey)
BJP promises in the Delhi election
Interview on the party’s campaign commitments in Delhi.
“When we make a promise, it has Modiji’s guarantee.”
- Early 2025ANI Podcast with Smita Prakash, EP-256
Delhi Assembly election campaign
Long-form podcast conversation during the Delhi campaign. Published title: “Fake promises won’t clean Yamuna or fix Delhi’s roads”. The exact release date is not given on the listing.
- 2 Dec 2024Lok Sabha
Central support for Odisha’s Green Energy Corridor
Raised under Rule 377 and laid on the Table of the House.
- 25 Jul 2024Lok Sabha
General discussion on the Union Budget 2024–25
Took part in the general discussion on the Union Budget.
- 6 Dec 2023Global Technology Summit, New Delhi
Data protection regulation
Keynote on India’s approach to data protection, after the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 was enacted.
“India has developed the confidence to not wait for others to take the lead but to help shape the global landscape on regulations concerning privacy and data protection.”
- 25 Apr 2022ThePrint
India–China relations
Discussed India’s posture towards China and his involvement in Track-II diplomacy.
“I have been involved in Track-2 diplomacy with China for years”
- Apr 2022Raisina Dialogue, New Delhi
“The Revenge of Ideology? Polarisation and the Exhaustion of Liberalism”
Panel discussion at the Raisina Dialogue. As reported, he described India’s shift “from an era of diffidence… to one of confidence”.
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