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In the Part 2 of this interview by The New Indian Executive Editor Rohan Dua, controversial US Indian billionaire Darshan Dhaliwal, who was once stopped at the Delhi airport during farmer protests in 2020, talks about his relationship with a White woman with whom he fell in love with during 1970s and married her.

The billionaire businessman, who owns more than a thousand petrol pumps and gas stations (some in partnerships and others by taking a stake through other Indians), talks of his personal life, his love for big cars like Mercedes, Rolls Royce, BMW 7 series, and palatial bungalows he built in Milwaukee over the last few years.

He’s on the cusp of diversifying his business by acquiring a hotel near Milwaukee’s airport.

In this interview, he talks about hosting famous Bollywood actors Dev Anand, Sunny Deol, Prem Chopra, Bobby Deol among others.

He also talks about an awkard incident featuring Shatrughan Sinha, who served as a minister during Vajpayee government was unable to get audience with the then US health secretary Tommy Thompson Dhaliwal untill
Dhaliwal used his friendship and negotiating skills to facilitate a meeting betwern the two.

Dhaliwal also recalls owning a $3 million yacht apart from his bevy of cars that has nameplates mentioning his home village, in Punjab, as Rakhra 1, Rakhra 2 and so on.

In the past, Dhaliwal had also courted controversies during his business acquisition with a few court cases slapped against him in Milwaukee which he contested.

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