<p>“There was no question of my being unhappy. I was not here and was earlier busy with the Mumbai Cricket Association elections. I came back yesterday and took the charge today,” he said after taking charge.<br /><br />Asked if he felt demoted after his shifting from the rural development ministry, Deshmukh said: “It is no demotion. The prime minister is the chairman of the department, where I am the vice chairman. How can you call this demotion?”<br /><br />He said science and technology is the subject of the future and it was wrong to say that technology was not reaching the common man.<br /><br />“Many latest innovations were coming to the aid of the common man. Technology would drive the future,” Deshmukh maintained.<br /></p>
<p>“There was no question of my being unhappy. I was not here and was earlier busy with the Mumbai Cricket Association elections. I came back yesterday and took the charge today,” he said after taking charge.<br /><br />Asked if he felt demoted after his shifting from the rural development ministry, Deshmukh said: “It is no demotion. The prime minister is the chairman of the department, where I am the vice chairman. How can you call this demotion?”<br /><br />He said science and technology is the subject of the future and it was wrong to say that technology was not reaching the common man.<br /><br />“Many latest innovations were coming to the aid of the common man. Technology would drive the future,” Deshmukh maintained.<br /></p>
