Actor Preity Zinta is a very busy woman these days. First of all, for the next one-and-a-half months her prime objective will be to ensure that her cricket team does well in the ongoing T20 tournament.
Then, once the tournament is over, she will take up a cause in a big way—she wants to campaign against corruption that ‘prevails at every tier of the state government’. For this she has decided to turn into an activist. “I had wanted to become an activist for a long time. I think the time has come,” says Preity.
In the midst of all this, we ask her about rumours of her wanting to sell off her stake in her cricket team for ‘personal’ reasons. She rubbishes them saying, “I plan to stay with the team as long as I can. Personal relations or equations don’t matter when we are working. My relation with the other owners and members of my team is as cohesive as any other team in the tournament.”
Coming back to the activist streak in her, Preity says Maharashtra would have taken long strides towards development had it not been for the ‘disease’ of people expecting their palms to be greased at all levels. “I don’t want to sound as if I am comparing Maharashtra with another state. But I’ve been to Gujarat and I saw that the level of corruption there is much less. When I saw that I wished the same thing would happen in Maharashtra,” she says.
When asked what she would promote during her campaign against corruption, she says, “I will advocate that a cut be given to government employees against every ‘lucrative’ project that is passed or completed by them. Or, maybe a part of the profits after a project gets completed successfully. In most private companies you get the work done and then you are rewarded with a small portion of the profit that comes in. I think if that system is put in place, then the government would soon be corruption free.”
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