“I have to pay a hafta of Rs 6,000 crore (60 billion) per week to Maharashtra’s creditors,” says Sushil Kumar Shinde on The RKB Show. Airing on 24 April at 7:30 PM , the show has Maharashtra's reigning chief minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in an exclusive hour-long interview.

In this explosive tete-e-tete, Shinde speaks about how he still holds the centre responsible for denying drought relief to the state government. "I met the prime minister along with Balasaheb Thackeray. I asked for Rs 1.99 crore (19.9 million), but Thackeray asked for Rs 2000 crore (20 billion). They have sent Rs 43 crore (430 million). They are not even bothered about their own alliance partners, the NDA have politicized even the issue of famine relief."

"People like Pramod Mahajan and the BJP are so scared of Sonia Gandhi that they see her everywhere. In fact they have already admitted defeat against us." Shinde says.

The chief minister claims that he has given a plus budget for the current financial year. "I agree this is only for the year but give me another couple of years and I shall wipe out the huge deficit we inherited from the Shiv Sena-BJP. I have already stabilsied it, in fact now it has started to come down. I am now having to pay a hafta of Rs 6,000 (60 billion) crore per week and I will pay it”

An obviously passionate and angry chief minister, replying to a question on Dr P S Pasricha’s transfer, says, "I was in intelligence when I was a sub-inspector. I know who is feeding what to whom. If he (Pasricha) wanted to continue only as Commissioner, he should have stated in writing that he did not want to be promoted."