‘Modi alone capable of leading country’

“The rights are there, but no one will offer them to you. You must take them,” said Patel about mayors’ complaints of  short tenures and limited powers. “You should assert yourself. Use your vision for the good of your cities, plan ahead of your annual budgets, instead of complaining of lack of time for completing budgeted projects,” she said, adding that projects could be completed with due concentration irrespective of length of tenure. “Take your rights seriously, plan in advance and be assertive in exercising them instead of sulking over being taken for granted,” she said.

“Even as ministers, we  go to Narendrabhai’s weekly Cabinet meetings prepared to face inquiries about our departments,” she said.