Barring public agitations, Modi has proactively participated in all organisational and party matters. He has never missed any national or state-level party function where his presence has been necessary or expected. Furthermore, he has initiated many innovative programmes to address the grievances of the public. Through the internet-based State-Wide Attention on Grievances by Application of Technology, he or his representatives attend to people’s problems once a month to solve them on the spot. So far, 33,581 such grievances have been solved. A further 87,822 phone-in grievances of citizens have also been solved. He also interacts with people through video conferences. In fact, he himself takes the lead in explaining to people various welfare schemes. Just to illustrate, very recently he has directly communicated with 16 to 17 lakh women in just 40 days through 26 mahila sammelans spread across the state.

I hope this provides an insight into Mr Modi’s philosophy, attitude and actions.

The writer is Gujarat’s minister for development