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.

It has become a fashion to declare a package after every crisis. The time has come to pack those who keep giving these packages that don't reach the farmers.

In fact, the most important reforms are those needed, without new laws, at various levels of Government, in work practices and procedures.

I have come with one medicinal herb that I am offering as a remedy to India's problems. And that medicinal herb is 'development'.

Secularism is not only in our constitution but also in our veins. We worship Mother Nature too. We believe that the world is our family.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

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.