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 resid… - V. P. Singh

The Dalits are a powerful secular force. Then, the backward forces can provide an effective bulwark along with the minorities against the forces of coramunalism. Because what has been established in the past half a century is the upper caste Hindu raj, depriving the backwards and the minorities.

I said bring equity back on the national agenda. And equity is a broad concept with facets like political equity, decentralisation, electoral reforms, freedom of the press. It includes economic and social equity: for women, for SCs and STs, for the minorities.

I would be a disaster as a prime minister.