On the first day of the new year 2019 – a crucial year when the entire nation will go to polls to choose their new prime minister – Narendra Modi sat down for an interview with ANI’s Smita Prakash.

In the 95-minute-long interview, Modi faced questions ranging from demonetisation, the Rafale controversy, farm loan waivers, the epidemic of mob lynching spreading across the country and took pot shots at the Congress.

But even while answering, he chose to overlook a few crucial facts, thereby, essentially turning the interview into a prolonged monologue, the format he’s most comfortable with.