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

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

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.

I do not rule out the possibility of being prime minister of India one day, but there is still time.

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.

For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

It is because of me that today the union government has sanctioned special funds for the development of Bihar.