Modi is a bubble based on no substance... My prediction is that the Modi bubble will burst before next elections, he has no agenda, except defeat Congress, says the senior leaderNarendra Modi is actually Nirantar Virodhi (perpetual opposer). His policy is virodh, virodh and virodh. There is nothing positive about the man. What is the alternative vision for India that he has put forth? Good or bad is not the issue. I raise the fundamental question: Has Nirantar Virodhi placed before the nation an alternative vision that is the vision of the BJP. What has he said about education? Occupation? Health? Economics? Social issues? Has he said how he will deal with terrorism? Our neighbours? What has he talked about? All he has said is that he is anti-Congress, and he wants a nation without the Congress.The Congress has a policy, we have an ideology, the BJP doesn’t, Narendra Modi doesn’t have any. The man has no vision. If he had, he would have implemented it in Gujarat. A vision for the future must be presented because I don’t think we are giving the people of India the choice that they need to decide one way or the other. 2014 must be an election about issues. This election should not be about people abusing each other.This bubble is based on no substance. When you see a balloon that goes up, it ultimately bursts. My prediction is that the Modi bubble will burst before the election. At some stage, there will be no oxygen left. Niranter Virodhi has no agenda, except defeat the Congress.People are just testing and assessing. If you spend Rs 10 crore for a rally, people will come. We have not done that.I’m only saying you can. Given the rumours, the income-tax authorities should ask about this money. Advani wants black money to be brought back from abroad; he should ask Modi where he is getting the money? The BJP goes with the tide wherever that is, they spend a lot of money and create a media hype. They’ve been doing it all along.The Congress has an ideology on every issue. We want to make the North East the granary of India. Already we are moving on to horticulture, we are exporting a lot. We have been able to achieve 250 million tonnes of food production; farmers are getting more money. If the GDP has gone up four times from Rs 16 lakh crore from Rs 4.6 lakh crore, then there is something that must have been done right by the Congress. We have succeeded in some places, and not in some. This is partly because of the complexity of Indian politics and partly because of the sheer obduracy of the party, which has no alternative vision. This is the reality of India. The development story has been destroyed from within, not outside.The cancellation of 122 licences almost destroyed the sector. In Odisha we could save lives of people because of mobile phones. The fact that people could get mobile phones was a success of the telecom policy. That success was being made into a big scam. Communication and cyberspace is the future of the world. If you damage that sector you are damaging the future of India. The judiciary did it because it was convinced that public interest was involved. We respect the judiciary for it but where the judiciary might have erred, that is something that history will say, is in saying ‘first come first serve’ is unconstitutional. The methodology of giving licences may have been wrong but on that basis to say the policy itself was unconstitutional is what damaged the sector.I don’t think judiciary is wantonly killing economic growth. Judiciary believes that whatever it has done was in public interest. Their vision of public interest may well be erroneous, and a number of their decisions have negatively impacted sectors such as telecom, coal. Those decisions are in process. The judiciary is monitoring the coal scam. I think they should also be monitoring fake encounters in Gujarat. Why isn’t the judiciary monitoring fake encounters? Is life less important than production and allocation of coal? If allocation of coal blocks is important, so are fake encounters at the behest of the government. That’s all. As a citizen, I think it is equally important, perhaps more important.I am the law minister so I don’t want to give a firm opinion on this, but personally speaking, what should normally happen in such cases is that someone should challenge the allocation before launching a prosecution. What happens if the allocation was challenged and it was found to be alright, then where is the occasion for prosecution. I cannot say whether the prosecution is right or wrong because I don’t know the facts.”Since 2009, Congress has won more elections than BJP, that’s the impact. Policies are not meant for winning polls, they are for public good. Sometimes, public good decisions coincide with politics, like the loan waiver but it was because farmers did not have the capacity to pay. Why mix policy and politics. As science and technology minister, I initiated Project 800, I didn’t do it to win elections I did it because these people need solutions to improve their lives. Decisions like NREGA, food security are part of this. The issue is not the electoral benefit but if 800 million people need succor, they should be provided for. No matter which party comes to power, they must be provided because fundamentally India is one country. We can’t divide it into the rich and the poor. And the rich must pay for it.If the Twitter world is urban India then there is a lot of anger. There will be anger for every government. I am only saying that we don’t know the extent of the anger. I don’t have the data for it.Anna Hazare raised an issue, we are also concerned and we are dealing with it. I don’t want to comment on the AAP. The Congress will win. I challenge Modi to show any aspect of the economy since 2004 that has gone down. Take power, in the 11th plan, we added 54,000 mw of power as opposed to 10th plan’s 20,000 mw. Has Modi helped us produce this power? Is the BJP responsible? If yes, BJP should be in opposition all their lives, because then India will progress.(Interviewed by Urmi A Goswami & Himangshu Watts)