When people see how I manage to work my way out of tough situations, it gives them hope in their own life.

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

If we increase freight rates, the goods will move through the roads and the condition of the roads will become worse.

Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

In politics, everybody is free to choose his friends and allies.