prime minister narendra modi in an interview with times now has shared his views on a range of issues here is the complete transcript of the prime ministers interview with arnab goswami arnab prime minister modi thank you very much for this interview thank you very muchpm modi my greetings to all the peoplearnab this is your first one to one interview to a private news channel since you became prime minister and if i am not mistaken this is the first ever interview by a sitting prime minister of india to a private television news channel in the country so i would first like to thank you and am very grateful for the opportunitypm modi the world of the media has grown so big that everybody has to attach themselves with itarnab i am very grateful and our viewers will be very grateful also mr modi because they want to hear your views on a range of subjects mr prime minister i would like to start by taking you back to 20th may 2014 the results came on may 16th four days later you gave a historic speech in the central hall of parliament and you were speaking to the members of parliament you had said four days after the results that an era of responsibility has begun and that you said that in 2019 before the elections i will come back to this parliament i will come back to the mps and i will give my report card forty percent into your tenure how much have you achieved of your own targetspm modi when i went for the first time as an mp to the central hall and it was the first time i was seeing the central hall i had not been there before so i had then said that becoming the prime minister was not about the designation of the office but it was about the responsibilities and work of being a pm i had also said that my government would be committed to the poor i was completely new in the job delhi was new for me the delhi environment was new to me the work of the government of india was also new for me but despite that in such a short time the pace at which the country has moved forward and its not on one subject you can pick up any aspect of the governments functioning and if you make a comparison with the past governments then you will realize that no issue has been ignored there has been an effort to bring in something new in every area there is an effort to bring in change in every area one big challenge was that i was not experienced about this place i had not even been an mp the office was new the questions were also new but when i look at the second biggest challenge we should remember those days when the country was engulfed in disappointment the everyday news