To be equitable, economic growth has to be sustainable. To be sustainable, economic growth has in turn to be all-inclusive. All-inclusive is no longer the greatest good of the greatest number. It is actually 'Sarvodaya' or the 'rise of all'. This Mahatma Gandhi saw as essential to Satyagraha itself.

The future of each of us is inter-connected and all of us should work together by following the path laid down by former leaders of the party for the development of the country and its brighter future.

An economy growing at 7 percent per year, can and must find the resources to improve the lives of its millions of poor.

The biggest challenge at the national level is to defeat communal forces for which the support of the Left parties was essential but the party is opposed to the Left in Kerala because UDF's aim is to ensure economic development and social harmony.

Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.

I am resigning my post in the parliament. I have done this because I think it is the right thing to do.

I am an Indian. In fact, I feel like a foreigner when I go abroad.