Zee Media Bureau
New Delhi: BJP`s prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has outrightly rejected criticism that he is an authoritarian person and has attempted to make his party a one-man show.
In an interview to a private TV news channel, the BJP leader was quoted as saying on Tuesday that he is a team player and believes in taking decisions collectively.
“How can one take important decisions alone. This is not possible. The secret of my success is that I don`t take decisions alone. I am a team player. Before deciding on anything, I consult my team and once a decision is reached, I stick to that.”
During the interview, the BJP leader also talked about his association with party`s ideological head the RSS and said that he is not in politics just to become the prime minister but to serve the people of this country.
"Ï am highly indebted to the RSS. Its ideology appealed to me since my early days. The RSS taught me to be grounded and that service to humanity is the biggest service to the God,” he said.
The Gujarat Chief Minister said that the meticulous training that he received as RSS worker has made him extremely disciplined, focused and has greatly shaped his life.
The Gujarat BJP leader stressed that for him politics was never an ambition but a mission to serve the people of this country.
Modi also highlighted that the BJP governments in states like Chhattisgarh, MP, Gujarat and Rajasthan have done good wok and that`s why the people have voted the party back to power.
Modi also made a scathing attack on the Congress-led UPA government for its failure to curb inflation, series of scams unearthed during its tenure, black money and its direction-less and weak foreign policy.
“This election is the first of its kind. We need to bring back people`s lost confidence and trust in government,” he said.
Describing the upcoming Lok Sabha polls as an "election of hope", Narendra Modi said that he wants to rid the nation of bad governance, vote bank politics, dynastic rule, corruption and misuse of constitutional institutions which were "nourished" by Congress governments.
Modi, who is campaigning extensively for the party in the country, has repeatedly said in his rallies that the "biggest crisis" facing the nation is that people have lost confidence in Congress and in the institution of the Prime Minister because of its inept and anti-poor policies.
He has listed job creation, skill development, enhancing farm produce, industrial production, healthcare, reservation and empowerment of women and stepping up security measures as his top priorities during his election rallies.
