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.

The provision of toilets is a minimum requirement for the dignity of our women.

Yoga should not be just an exercise, but a means to connect with the world and with nature. It should bring a change in our lifestyle and create awareness within us.

In a democracy, everyone has the right to criticise the Government.

I am confident that Saansad Adarsh Gram Yojana will open the doors of good politics.

Whatever position we may rise to, be it of MP, CM or PM, nothing can teach us the way villages can.

There is a saying in India that the person who should throw a stone first is the person who has not committed any sins. In the world right now, a lot of people want to give advice. But look within them, and they too have sinned in some way. Ultimately, India's view point is that efforts need to be made to sit together and talk, and to resolve problems in an ongoing process.