There is a great deal of reward when you do good work and people see how successful that work is and the happiness it brings to them.
When I took over in 2000, Odisha was in a terrible financial state due to various policies, some of them unpopular.
We prefer to be isolated in Odisha. That is a policy of equidistance, and going it alone has served us well in the past.
I am quite fluent in Odiya. I understand the people of Odisha, and they understand me.
My interest as a regional party is to support, or try and support, whichever party fulfils the aspirations of Odisha.
Vajpayee had a much bigger stature than Mr Modi. He knew how to run a coalition government very successfully.
Vajpayee had a much bigger stature than Mr Modi. He knew how to run a coalition government very successfully.
The Beatles were here in the 1960s, with their wives, at the Maharshi's ashram. And they wanted my advice on various matters in India.
I was never in politics before I contested the Lok Sabha by-elections after my father's death.
I think it is commonplace for parties to change candidates and reshuffle ministries to bring in new faces.
The four and half crore of people in Odisha are my family, and I will serve them till the last breath.