“What is good or bad is not my issue.”
2014, "GhoshanaPatra with Narendra Modi", 2014
Context: See, you asked the wrong question. What is good or bad is not my issue. If you pick up things from every nook and cranny and demand answers from me, then aise kaam kaise chalega [how will we manage]. Whatever my party’s official stand is, I reflect only that.
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