n an exclusive interview to CNBC Awaaz, Modi said the Centre must think like a team leader, where the team will include the Prime Minister and Chief Ministers.

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Exclusive Interview of NaMo with CNBC Awaaz on 18th April 2014

Spoke about Regional Aspirations has to kept in mind even if its collation govt. And in a democratic setup, its important that political parties face the pressure of performance from people, which will inspire them to do good work.

n a democratic set up, it is important that political parties face the pressure of performance, which will inspire them to do good work, said BJP Prime Ministerial Candidate Narendra Modi.

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In a democratic set up, it is important that political parties face the pressure of performance, which will inspire them to do good work

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Team India – A different approach for PM <--> CM collaboration. After post-independence era, congress had golden opportunity as the states and central govt both were with them and was much easier to give development, but things have changed now. Since its federal govt and state govts are different than central. I propose a plan called Team India, which will be collaboration of PM and CMs of states, it has to be Meeting of Minds and brainstorm for development jointly.

Railway has to become National Growth Engine. Holistically Railways has to be technologically upgraded and managed with super computers kind of environment. Railways will be aligned nationally.

Min Government Max Governance - Eg: Hops a file has to traverse to get sanctioned has to be reduced by 80%. Talked about How in Gujarat has implemented single window clearance. People want 20-20 now.

Q: Total fiscal collapse situation currently with India and what about job creation? Coal-india - non performing promoters will be fired which is the need of hour?

For the benefit of country any aggressive decision can be taken, that’s what Modi is known for. Gave example of Gujarat’s Electricity Board which was deficit of 2500Crs per year is making profits now with 24/7 supply capacity.

Q: Crony Capitalism in public sector?

First are motivating public sector employees and bring them to perform with professionalism on par with private. Gave example of Gujarat fertilizer, how it was in deficit and now its India's most profit making public sector.

Q: GST ?

BJP is always with GST. Will bring it in IT network. Will bring in parliament. Have to work with state govts in compliance, either bigger state or loss making GDP states. Support system has to be implemented.

Q: 100 day program?

I don’t believe in short cut politics. Running govt is serious business, we don’t have to focus on news traders. We will focus on long term plans with decision governance.

Decentralization, empowerment of State govt. We cannot work with centralization of everything. In my past 12 years of exp I never did micro management, I empower those who know or whoever is expert in the area, I bring them in and empower them.

Q: Fiscal empowerment to States?

Floating and flexibility allotment to states, budgets for road is not need of hour it can be used for water.

Q: FDI

Have to protect the interests of our Small scale industries and Manufacturing sector, since it will affect employment opportunities.

Q: America - USA relationship, since it’s in bad shape now, how to repair it?

External affairs role which was 25 years back and after globalization and the situation now is completely different, diplomacy has taken new parameters all together. Trade commerce and technological support is important for India, will give importance to it.

Q: Did you address Muslim anxiety?

I always reached and worked towards One India, in Gujarat I worked for 6 cr Gujaratis not Hindu or Muslim. Country is tired of these terminologies, so please keep them away. I only believe in terminologies like Youth, poverty eradication, farmers, education, city and village development and medical care.

Q: What do you want to tell to Muslim population of Banaras?

Don’t do the politics of breaking India, I always address as citizens of India. I never did appeasement politics, I don’t mind losing in elections but I cannot appeal to one religion that will break my India. Many have already divided India in the name of secularism, brothers and sisters of India have been divided, for me India First and all are same. That’s my mantra.

Q: Even in the era of Globalization, Muslims have decided to divide BJP votes, its hard reality, what is your stake?

Let them do their job, I will do my job.

Q: Is Modi one man army, is Rajnath or Moham Bhagvat or RSS not given enuf mileage?

Whenever bad days of congress have started, they come on ground to bash RSS. RSS is a national organization, vested media and News traders have harmed RSS in a big way. Its only organization that comes to rescue of nation whoever required without vested interest and with selfless service. There are many RSS worked far in north east or in jungles with Adivasis working for their betterment and education, they are unsung heroes. RSS is never aligned to political party, there are leaders who emerge out of RSS, if they wish they can be political or else they will remain in organization working towards selfless service.

Q: What is News Traders you mean?

I never commented on Media. However there is terrorism in the Media that is happening who goes even against court decisions, in normal circumstances its contempt of court but we are in public life have to bear all these things.

Q: Modi has been victim of Media Bashing from past many years, however Modi Countered it with his own Media and Communication network that Main stream Media is not required for Modi?

I don’t believe in it, Media is important pillar of the Democracy; we will have to work to strengthen Media. Again media is victim of Political mileage, so politicians are responsible for it. Now that credibility of Media has lost, it has to earn its own credibility no one can help them. Like I have entered politics to cleanse it, Media has to cleanse itself.

Q: Modi has been batting for fast track courts to deliver justice in the corruption cases, what else Modi will do to address Corruption?

It has to be thought in a different way, if you see during the freedom struggle, we got leaders at different levels, and they were quite sensitive. Then after 15-20 years the detoriation of the leadership started. Then started vote bank politics, religions voted politicians, then politicians voted religions, which detoriated overall leadership quality and the political structure in the country. There entered anti-social elements who entered political system to support politicians, and then they themselves became leaders. Now the situation is even if any party has intentions to cleanse it, it is next to impossible to completely remove it. I will be happy if accept citizens suggestions towards the cleansing, but my Idea is all the siting MPs and MLAs we have to scrutinise and be tried in supreme courts, if they have done mistake they will suffer. Then do the samething at the corporation level, then at the panchayat level. by 150th Birthday of Gandhi I would like to present to him a clean India, need help from citizens of India to do it.

Q: Institutions like CBI, Election Commission or even parliamentary functionary needs major repair, do you think it is big challenge?

Due to incapable leadership, in decisive govt they have minor dents in them, once we have able leadership in place; all these institutions will fall in place.

Q: Modi is known to be business friendly and some are calling crony capitalism, what are your thoughts on it that Modi will be not used by businesses?

I do Global investors summit in Gujarat every 2 years, I call 100s of entrepreneurs from across the world to participate in it. I believe in employment opportunities for youth is utmost important, so I reserve first half day of the summit for Medium and Small scale industries. Govt of India Reports shows Medium and Small scale industrial growth in India is 10% whereas Gujarat it is 85% growth. While you talk about Capitalism you should see how in core summer I take whole ministry and bureaucracy and make tours in Villages at 45'c temperatures to improve enrolment to schools. We have 100% enrolments in schools. We do krishi mahotsavs, where whole team of agricultural scientists along with ministry tours villages and explains them about modern methods of farming, I personally sit with them and discuss things. So ultimately news traders can see capitalism only, that’s disastrous for India. While I don’t mind taking photos with Industrialists because I am clean and neat, I don’t have anything to Hide, those who have things to hide, they talk and trade news.

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A vote for Modi could make India more Chinese

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The election frontrunner is more about making the economic pie bigger than slicing it up fairly

China’s ability to get things done has long caused many Indians to marvel. Whether the planners in Beijing are overseeing the biggest rural-urban migration in human history or building the world’s longest high-speed rail network faster than you can say “tickets please”, there is a sense of purpose to everything they do. India – democratic, federal, chaotic – has never been able to pull off anything like that speed of execution.

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For years, Indians have hoped that their virtues will win out in the end. Their country may plod, goes the narrative, but it plods in the right direction. China’s authoritarian system, which operates without the constraints of electors, independent courts or a free press, can dash off in any direction. It is capable of engineering 10 per cent growth year after year (though even that miracle has recently run out of road). Equally, it can produce the disaster of the cultural revolution and may yet conjure an economic catastrophe – say an explosion of the property sector or an implosion of shadow banking. China has only a gas pedal.

But what if Indians voted to become more like China? That is one plausible interpretation of the seemingly decisive swing in electoral support towards Narendra Modi, Gujarat’s chief minister and a prime ministerial candidate with Chinese characteristics. If nothing else, Mr Modi, whose leadership style brooks little opposition, has a reputation for getting things done. His supporters, including most of the country’s business leaders, who have flocked to Gujarat to pay homage, praise his decisiveness and hatred of red tape. In 2008 Ratan Tata, whose plan to build the Nano mini-car in West Bengal fell foul of local politics, came to him with a proposal to switch the factory to Gujarat. Mr Modi nodded – and it was done. Modinomics is the triumph of implementation over prevarication.

The parallels with a Chinese-style leadership should not be overdone. But there is at least one other way in which a Modi administration might resemble a Chinese-style approach. Like Deng Xiaoping, who departed from Communist ideology with his pragmatic entreaty to “let some people get rich first”, Mr Modi is more about making the economic pie bigger than slicing it up fairly.
Critics of Manmohan Singh’s Congress administration, which in its second five-year term has watched helplessly as the growth rate has slid below 5 per cent, say it has prioritised redistribution over expansion. Its profligacy on subsidies and social programmes, charge detractors, has obliged the central bank to tighten monetary policy, thereby choking growth.

Sadly for Congress, its redistributive policies are seen to have failed even by those who are supposed to have benefited. A recent Pew Research Center survey, which polled almost 2,500 people across the country, found that rich and poor Indians, educated and non-educated, urban and rural, want a switch to Mr Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata party by a hefty majority. Fully seven in 10 are dissatisfied with the way things are going, and 63 per cent favour a BJP administration over a Congress one. No fewer than 78 per cent have a favourable view of Mr Modi, with just 16 per cent disapproving.

Part of Mr Modi’s attraction is that, by sheer force of will, he may be able to override some of the checks and balances of Indian democracy and introduce some of the clearheadness of growth-driven China

What do people expect from him? Asked which party would do a better job helping the poor, 54 per cent had faith in the BJP, with only 21 per cent selecting Congress. That is surprising given that Congress has funded a food-guarantee programme covering almost two-thirds of the population and a rural employment guarantee scheme ensuring 100 days of subsidised work per household. Similarly, asked which party would be better at controlling price rises, another crucial concern for poor people, the tally was 55 per cent in favour of Mr Modi’s BJP against 17 per cent for Congress.
Since faster growth was unleashed with the reforms of 1991, which dismantled the red-tape restrictions of the licence Raj, hundreds of millions of Indians have done better. But hundreds of millions more have been left behind. The crucial point, though, says Jagdish Bhagwati, a prominent Indian economist at Columbia University, is that those 20 years have demonstrated poverty to be a “removable condition”. Indians have undergone what he calls a “revolution of perceived possibilities”.

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Increasingly, according to this theory, they may be attracted not to promises of Nehruvian-style equality but rather to the prospect of Deng-style growth. Part of Mr Modi’s attraction is that, by sheer force of will, he may be able to override some of the checks and balances of Indian democracy and introduce some of the clearheadness of growth-driven China. Under a Modi administration, the hope is, land will be cleared, permissions will be granted, and roads and other infrastructure will be built. In this cheerful scenario – far too optimistic, according to his many detractors – he will do for India in its entirety what he has been able to achieve for Gujarat.
Of course, India will never really be like China. Mr Modi is a fiery orator who can rouse a crowd – a quality that, at least since Mao Zedong, has hardly been required by unelected Chinese leaders. Nor can India, fractious and with significant power devolved to the states, ever emulate an authoritarian China in which power is concentrated in the centre. And even if, after the general election in May, Mr Modi is crowned prime minister and goes on to wield power more single-mindedly than his predecessors, there will always be one crucial difference with China. If Indians decide that they do not like him, they can always kick him out.

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