By our correspondent, Vadodara, DeshGujarat 10 March 2013

India’s one of the most respected journalists, former union minister, BJP intellect Shri Arun Shourie was in Vadodara in Gujarat today to deliver Manubhai Shroff memorial lecture. On the sideline of the function, Shri Shourie briefly interacted with the media persons and gave answers of few questions. One of the questions was about Shri LK Advani’s recent statement that people are disillusioned with both Congress and BJP. The talk is presented in video above.

Media persons: Sir Advaniji has recently said that People are disillusioned with Congress and BJP both.

Arun Shourie: I don’t talk on BJP etc, but when Advaniji has said, it’s Ved Vakya

Media persons: People are loosing trust on political parties like (they are loosing trust on) journalism too!

Arun Shourie:There’s a systemic problem. There has been a homogenization of political parties. They are all becoming like each other. On that there’s no doubt. Shades might be different but fractionalism, personal ambitions, corruption, one political party is around one family, or four-five people of an individual – you will see this everywhere, whether you look at Mulayamji’s party, Mayavatiji’s party or Congress, whichever party.

Media persons:BJP too?

Arun Shourie: On that, I have said homogenization of all political parties, and that is a problem for the Indian polity, because therefore you can’t get reform from within the political system.