I have often said that I am a politician by accident. I have held many diverse responsibilities. I have been a teacher, I have been an official of the Government of India, I have been a member of this greatest of Parliaments, but I have never forgotten my life as a young boy in a distant village.
Every day that I have been Prime Minister of India I have tried to remember that the first ten years of my life were spent in a village with no drinking water supply, no electricity, no hospital, no roads and nothing that we today associate with modern living. I had to walk miles to school, I had to study in the dim light of a kerosene oil lamp. This nation gave me the opportunity to ensure that such would not be the life of our children in the foreseeable future.
RE:GREAT LEADER-MMS,longlive
by S Shrikanth on Jul 22, 2008 10:04 PM Permalink
All lies. During the last 50 years, he has seldom come out of airconditioned environment. He also has a dubious distinction of being an unelected PM of India and losing the only Loksabha election he fought.
