Returning to power in northern India is very important for the Congress party. No magic wand will work. We have to make our efforts. It will be a long and difficult struggle for us.

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

My complaint with Dr Singh is that he sometimes does not highlight his achievements enough.

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

It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.

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

The Maharashtra government is working out a package for the worst-affected villages of the state in the recent floods. But we know whenever such calamities occur; whatever we do is not enough...more has to be done.