The Sangh Parivar, against which I had been waging a war, misled the people. My opponents used the Election Commission and the bureaucracy to win a political battle.

We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.

My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.

Why should I tell you where I am going to get funds from? If I were to do that then all the vested interests would get alerted. You must be aware that railways are full of such elements and my fight is against them.

Today in India there are all sections of people, as the BJP realized when the poor voted them out.

The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.