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That's what Qazi Tauqeer feels as he dismisses allegations that his win was politically motivated.
He is literally the new kid on the block, enjoying every bit of the attention and adulation that is coming his way post the talent hunt show he won recently.
Qazi Tauqeer admits to feeling like "A superstar who has the X-factor to win such a reality show. I knew I would win as I was the best. Ever since I was a kid people who met me felt that I was destined to be a superstar. Guess they were right."
Modesty certainly is not in with this young man. However, he is quite taken aback when you introduce him to a slew of allegations of his win being politically motivated, to pacify his troubled home state of Jammu and Kashmir.
He is hurt and it shows but that does not stop him from shooting back, "Really, this is what the perception is? Dekhiye all I know is that I have won as I deserved to win and the viewers wanted me to win.
That's how I got the largest number of votes, no political interference can motivate public to support me. Those who are looking for political innuendoes in such transparent contests are, in my opinion, those who have struggled all their life and got nowhere despite that.
They are failures, yeh log aaj kahin nahin pahunch paye is liye yeh sab boltein hain." (People who have not been able to make it despite years of struggle are the ones who cast such aspersions.)
Fair enough, but then does he know that among those making such allegations are no less bigwigs than Abhijeet Bhattacharya, a singer who by no means can be called a struggler who got nowhere.
A panorama of emotions fleet across his face before he retorts, "Really, that's strange. But then you see when a superstar like Shah Rukh Khan ko bhi batein sunni padethi hain, to main to ek bahut chhota sa kalakar hoon (when even Shah Rukh has to face such allegations then an aspiring artiste like me can know no respite).
All I know is that my confidence got me through and the love of the nation put me where I am today." So no political interference got him where he is today? "No, I have not even met or spoken to any politician let alone ask them for favours. People love me and it shows."
anjali.singh@timesgroup.com
SOURCE:TIMES OF INDIA--LUCKNOW EDITION--