India, May 26 -- Ambassador Taranjit Sandhu harps on his Majha roots, family legacy and Washington experience to bolster his bid to enter the Lok Sabha from Amristar where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) hasn't won since Navjot Sindhu's 2014 hat-trick. Excerpts of an interview to Vinod Sharma:

How's the transformation from diplomacy to politics? Are you enjoying it?

A) It is an extension in a sense that it is public service, and my main job was to connect the United States and India, which we could successfully do. If you go around Amritsar and look at the problems, there's a strong necessity to connect with the central government and bring investments from abroad that are coming to India but are not coming into Amritsar.

Amritsar is ...