Rajasthan deputy CM Sachin Pilot had once interned with BBC and joked about joining the BJP

Rajasthan deputy Chief Minister designate Sachin Pilot, who is also the Congress chief of the state, had once interned with the BBC and talked about joining the BJP.

Sachin Pilot, who has married National Conference leader Farooq Abdullah’s daughter Sara in 2004, earned his first salary of 20-30 Pound while he became an intern at the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Pilot had earlier completed his Bachelor of Arts from the prestigious St. Stephens College of Delhi University and also did his MBA from the Wharton School. Pilot packaged reports for the BBC and was paid a handsome amount.

As per a report published in The Print, Sachin’s father Rajesh Piot, who was then the minister of transport in the P.V Narshima Rao’s government had requested Satish Jacob of the BBC India to allow him as an intern and train him in the radio journalism techniques.

Pilot had also once joked about joining the Bhartiya Janta Party but has always been a loyalist of the Congress party.

At BBC, Sachin Pilot was not treated as the VIP and rather was instructed that he should leave the tag of being a politicians son. A former BBC journalist Ram Subramanian recalls the matter and said that Sachin Pilot was strictly told that “Forget you are Rajesh Pilot’s son. You will not be treated like a VIP’s son.”

Tragically, his father Rajesh Pilot lost his life in a road accident and thereafter, Sachin had to take forward the legacy of his father, who was a towering figure in the Congress party.

In the recently held Assembly Elections, Sachin Pilot single handedly has led the Congress to triumph along with Ashok Gehlot and Rahul Gandhi.

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