Interviews

"Samvaad" - a weekly show for DD News

The 13-episodes series titled "Samvaad" - one-to-one interview with top personalities was anchored by Harish Gupta for DD News channel when he was Editor, Dainik Bhaskar. It would be pertinent to mention here that Dr Manmohan Singh's only television interview until December 2006 was to Harish Gupta. He never gave any interview to any Indian channel after assuming the office of the Prime Minister. Gupta conducted this interview when Dr Singh was the Leader of the Opposition in Rajya Sabha. The series on DD News began in early 2004 and ended in April, 2004.

• Dr. Manmohan Singh
• L K Advani as Deputy Prime Minister & Home Minister
• Pranab Mukherjee, senior Congress leader
• M Venkiah Naidu, President, BJP
• P R Dasmunshi, Chief Whip Congress Party, Lok Sabha
• Pramod Mahajan, Parliamentary Affairs & Communications Minister
• Ambica Singh, general secretary, AICC
• Laloo Prasad Yadav, president RJD
• Sushma Swaraj, I & B Minister
• Ram Jethmalani, senior counsel
• Arun Jaitley, Commerce Minister
• Amrinder Singh, Chief Minister, Punjab
• Shtrughan Sinha, actor and Health Minister

Aap Aur Hum

It's a 30-minute one-to-one interview the personality of the week, mainly from political arena or persons in the news. The Talk-Show covered several leading personalities - Prime Ministers Dr Manmohan Singh, Atal Behari Vajpayee, Pranab Mukherjee, L K Advani, Swami Ram Dev and others.

• Rajnath Singh
• Kapil Sibbal
• Murli Manohar Joshi
• Amar Singh
• Shivraj Patil
• Prithvi Raj Chovhan
• Syed Shahnawaz Hussain
• Sukhbir Singh Badal
• Gulam Nabi Azad
• Moti Lal Vora
• Mehbooba Mufti
• Ravi Shankar Prasad
• Saifudin Soz
• Prem Chand Gupta
• Shri Prakash Jaiswal
• Vijay Kumar Malhotra
• Sitaram Yechuri
• Sharad Yadav
• Yashwant Sinha
• Salman Khurshid
• Sheela Dixit
• Swami Ramdev
• Anand Sharma
• A B Bardhan
• Mani Shankar Aiyer
• Raj Babbar
• K Yerran Naidu
• Kusum Rai
• Amar Singh
• Sushma Swaraj
• Ram Vilas Paswan
• Jaya Prada