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On the way from Dausa to Sikandra where he is to address another meeting, he spoke to rediff.com and recalled his entry into politics. “For me, politics is an extension of social work. I was interested in social work and was part of the Gandhi Peace Foundation. As a social worker, I was in Jessore (now in Bangladesh) during the 1971 war, working in the refugee camps. And from social work, I moved to politics,” he says, adding, “I believe one should be in politics only because one cares to make a difference to our society. If someone is in politics for power, he will not survive for long.”
For Gehlot, joining politics meant joining the Congress. His father was a local Congress official in Jodhpur and young Ashok liked the fact that the Congress was not exclusive. “There is a word in our dialect, Chhatisi. It means to include everyone, where all can take part. The Congress was like that,” he says.
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