In BJP & RSS, there are good people I respect, but some are playing dirty games.

I have no problem working with anybody as long as they are efficient and their intentions, their philosophy, their ideology are clear.

Sometimes, when democracy has to fight with autocracy, what can be done? We have to fight; somebody has to.

I have repeated ad nauseam my party's issues, which range from improving the lot of the poor to women's issues.

I have flatly refused to be conned by Jyoti Basu and his corrupt government.

In Bengal, at the state level, the Congress and Left are working with the BJP. At the national level, for the greater good, we feel we must work together in Parliament.

I don't have any personal agenda or vendetta against any individual, even Narendra Modi.

After my father died, we faced hardship but never asked anybody for help. We were self-sufficient.

I was not with BJP's communalism agenda.

In my government, I do Twitter on my own. I have no sponsorship, nothing.