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I do not know why everybody says that I am after power. If I were after power, I would have accepted it in 1996 when so many leaders came to my residence asking me to become prime minister.

— V. P. Singh

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I would be a disaster as a prime minister.

I have always been straight in my dealings, whether now or in yesteryear. There was no flip-flop

Their argument was that no one comes here to sit with prayer beads, they all have ambitions and if they are not fulfilled, they go away.

I had aimed at more internal competition but this government is inviting [[w:Multinationals|multinationals across the world.

Gandhi, Nehru and all did try to improve the situation. They tried to break a lot of economic and social stratifications. But inertia and the system prevail.

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