Niira Radia Opens Up About Her Last Meeting with Ratan Tata: ‘Stayed in Touch'

Niira Radia Opens Up About Her Last Meeting with Ratan Tata: Niira Radia, the corporate lobbyist whose phone calls to politicians, journalists and business bigwigs were leaked 15 years ago that exposed the 2G spectrum scam, is still in touch with industrialist and philanthropist Ratan Tata. Her conversation with Ratan Tata was part of the leaked tapes.

"About two months back, roughly about two to three months back. I remained in touch with him. We remained friends. He inaugurated... he was there at one of my functions," Niira Radia told NDTV Profit.

"We always talked on the phone whenever we could. What is nice was that we remained good friends much after and reminisced many moments."

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Niira Radia, who was the PR person for Tata Group for 12 years, calls Ratan Tata as a visionary and fearless leader, a “hardcore nationalist” and a “man of consensus.”

In her first TV interview in over a decade, Radia spoke about Ratan Tata’s leadership style who was at the helm of Tata Sons, the holding company of Tata Group, for 21 years between 1991 and 2012.

Radia who was the communications person for Tata Group between 2000 and 2012 through the now defunct Vaishnavi Communications, used the launch of Nano to explain Ratan Tata’s leadership style.

The Nano project at an introductory price of Rs 1 lakh shows he was a hardcore nationalist whose plans were always country centric, Radia said in an exclusive interview with NDTV Profit. Ratan Tata believed the Nano project could change the lives of millions by providing an affordable four wheeler option.

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Radia said Ratan Tata chose West Bengal to set up the Tata Nano plant to promote industrialisation in the state. Singur was chosen because the area was represented by an opposition leader at the time, Rabindranath Bhattacharya of Trinamool Congress. “He always wanted to take everybody along with him,” Radia said.

Tata who transformed Tata Group into a global giant died at 86 at Breach Candy Hospital in Mumbai last week. His death has sparked an outpouring of tributes on social media and offline from people across the board.

Noel Tata, 67, Ratan Tata’s half brother is the new head of Tata Trusts, a group of charities that controls the $165 billion business empire across 100 countries.

Reacting to Noel Tata being named as the legendary leader's successor at Tata Trusts, Radia told NDTV Profit, “Ratan would be very happy. He'll be very happy with that. He would have been very happy that it was unanimous (decision). He always was a man of consensus. It was never a top-down approach.”

Niira Radia who set up the now defunct Vaishnavi Communication had many big clients including Tata Group. In 2001 she got all 90 Tata Group accounts.

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