Chief Minister Quotes

As chief minister, I have worked towards implementing programmes strongly.

When I became chief minister of Punjab in 1985, I got Murree Road carpeted for the first time.

It's the public which decides its Chief Minister. We live in a democracy.

I was not in the race to become a chief minister. I had never thought about it.

I might be popular, but that is not sufficient in a parliamentary democracy set-up. One has to assess every chief minister, his success and rating in terms of how far he has succeeded in developing his colleagues.

In our party, for the post of the prime minister or chief minister, there is no race, and nor does anyone stake their claim. Who will be the prime minister or chief minister, either our parliamentary board decides on this or the elected MLAs, in the case of chief minister, and MPs, in the case of the prime minister, select their leader.

I never criticized Modi. All I said was that Modi cannot be a chief minister and still nurse prime ministerial ambitions. I only suggested that he should resign as the chief minister and then stake his claim to be prime minister.

In 2014, Modi's name was there in the minds of people due to the good work he had done in Gujarat as chief minister. He made Gujarat one of the most developed states in India.

While security of national leadership is of paramount significance, expenditure on permanent civil structures at the family home of the prime minister and chief minister from public exchequer will be a burden on their conscience.

I didn't become CM on 07-10-2001. I have always been CM, I am CM today and shall be CM forever. For me CM means not Chief Minister but Common Man.

There is a system in BJP as to who would be projected as a chief ministerial candidate or a prime ministerial candidate. The proper forum to take decision is only central parliamentary board.

ITC looks forward to working with the chief minister and the government of India to ensure trade leads to impact on the ground.

In 1978, when I was a non-Congress chief minister, we distributed surplus wheat among labourers. Later, when we visited a village, I asked a labourer whether he knew who sent the wheat. 'Yes, Indiraji - only Indiraji helps the poor.' Indiraji was a symbol for the weaker sections.

Many celebrations are set to take place in Swarnim Gujarat. However, if one asks me, "As the Chief Minister, which is your favourite programme?" Then friends, I would like to say that 'Vanche Gujarat' is the closest to my heart.

If a candidate at the MLA or chief ministerial level gets an advantage of belonging to a particular caste while fighting polls, that is one thing. But after having been elected, if you only look after the developmental needs of a particular caste or community, that is a different matter altogether. The BJP has never done that.

Running a government as chief minister and managing affairs of the nation are different things.

My task will remain incomplete until a BJP chief minister is installed in Lucknow.

I have been in the politics for the last 40 years. I became chief minister in 1995 and worked in the NDA and UPA. I have seen it all.

Jayalalitha has turned out to be a failure as chief minister.

Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?

I have lived with the people, and I, too, know their pulse; I am the people's CM.

I am happy that Uddhav Thackeray has become chief minister of Maharashtra, and I would like to congratulate him.

It requires guts to leave the chair of chief minister.

I have never declared myself an Indigenous politician; I am not an Indigenous Chief Minister.