The ultimate objective of subsidies should be to empower the poor, to break the cycle of poverty, and become foot-soldiers in our war on poverty.

Our education apparatus can't be one that produces robots. That can happen in laboratory. There has to be overall personality development.

Through Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana, we want to give impetus to Demand driven development model instead of Supply driven development model. Let the villages say what has to be done, and what not.

I have not come to Kashi to seek votes but to connect with the people and understand their problems.

It is our priority to win the hearts of people of Jammu and Kashmir. That could only be achieved through development and their welfare. We have a responsibility to see that people of the state are prosperous. We are not talking about Hindus or Muslims, but the people of Jammu and Kashmir. Development comes when there is integration.

I am in fear, there is no humour left in public life because of this fear.

I dream of a Digital India where government is open, and governance is transparent.