It used to hurt me in the past years to hear people say they want to leave India. But with the experience of past few months, I can say that we have removed that gloom from the minds of the people.

The world measures the government of a nation on the basis of its condition in its own country, on how strong their word is in their own country.

Religion to me is devotion to work and devotedly working is being religious.

By getting an opportunity to serve society, we get a chance to repay our debt.

For a government of any party, and for every one of us, even one suicide is worrisome.

I would especially like to appeal to my country's media that we should stop looking at everything in India from the prism of Pakistan. India is an independent country. It is a country of 125 crore people. Whenever it approaches any country, it will only be concerned about its own interests. It has been our biggest shortcoming and mistake that we have been tagging ourselves with another country and trying to do things.

If I talk about coal, people will start equating my statements with a political angle. This is not a platform for politics, I'm not making any allegations on anyone.