ghazi salahuddin atabani in khartoum, welcome to hardtalk.ear outcome of these protests and revolution is that the old guard such as yourself are now politically irrelevant. isn't that right? us being circulating amongst the political class in general, but i don't think it's true. i think we have a growing coming up generation which is becoming relevant everyday to our politics. but we still have the old guard rule, we still count. why do you still count? because i'll tell you something that one of the generals said at a televised news conference on the 12th of april that mr bashir‘s national congress party would be excluded from talks because it was responsible for what happened. that is true, and you were once a member of the ncp, so that means people don't want you in the picture. these people, let people decide. that's what we say. we maintain our relevance in different walks of life and that's why we are asked our opinion. and sometimes, we form coalitions which are really effective in sudanese politics. maybe we are doing at the old way