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George is only a political colleague: Jaya Jaitly

"I am a political colleague. Just like every other man and every other woman. People get nervous about women, who are educated, successful in politics, who are not afraid of saying and doing things, ready to fight for a cause and come out on the streets. They try to throw mud on the image of such people," Jaitly said in an interview to be telecast on SABe TV.

She said her relationship with Fernandes was never questioned by thousands of party workers and trade union activists they have worked with all along.

"This issue was raked up to rattle the government when it became strong, as Fernandes was its convener. In villages, we see that if someone from the upper caste wants to snatch the land of a person from a lower caste, the former commits rape and burns the house of the latter. You can apply the analogy to me," Jaitly said.

Asserting her ties with Fernandes had nothing to do with her separation from her husband, Jaitly said, "I am still very close to everybody in my family. People separate for different kind of reasons, but whether it is my in-laws or children, we are very close. Such things happen in life."