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 been Gujarat's strength to do development with Jan Bhagidari.

Any criminal act against any individual or institution in India is to be condemned. The attackers must be strongly punished as per law.

I feel blessed I can address students who are the future of India.

Bringing 17 crore people to the doors of the bank is a huge task and I commend all the bank officials for the same. It is not difficult to open a bank branch, it is difficult to get 17 crore people to open bank accounts.

The basis of democracy is tolerance to criticism. If you can't face criticism, if you can't accept it, then you cannot guard democracy, you are not eligible for it.

Politics is not a profession, it is a service. I want to keep working more for the Nation not because of the designation, but because people of India are my family.