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.

If people of India can reach Mars with minimal expenditure, why can they not keep their streets and colonies clean.

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.

Mere good governance is not enough; it has to be pro-people and pro-active. Good governance is putting people at the center of development process.

We want to make nation-building a people's movement.

If we want the world to be a better place to live, we have to treat it as one unit. If we want economic growth to be pervasive, we have to make people its partners. If we want the process of development to be sustainable, we have to work with the environment.

Development should be a mass movement. We need to integrate the people and make it a mass movement.

I have not come to Kashi to seek votes but to connect with the people and understand their problems.

We always remember the courage of the people of Kargil! We want to make Kargil among India's most developed districts.