My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.

While transparency reduces corruption, good governance goes beyond transparency in achieving openness. Openness means involving the stakeholders in decision-making process. Transparency is the right to information while openness is the right to participation.

We no longer live in a bipolar world. The world is interconnected and interdependent. You will have to connect with everybody at the same time. Even if there are two opposing countries, they will have to be friends. Now the times have changed.

We must enable farmers to feed India and the world; and earn a good livelihood.

Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential.

If our rocks, our homes, our streets are our heritage... our Pol is our heritage, then the lifestyle that has emerged over time...that also is our heritage and that itself...is our soul. And it is this soul that connects us.

My only aim is the welfare of the poor of my country and the poor of states like Uttar Pradesh.