Induction of fresh blood and ideas into the apex chamber, changing the common perception that all the business does with the Government is to seek sops for itself and contributing to the nation-building efforts by taking on and addressing the real issues of governance besides working for a sustainable and inclusive growth form the agenda of Rajeev Chandrasekhar, the new President of the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and MP. Spelling out the list of priorities at his first formal interaction with the media, after assuming charge of the apex chamber, he said he would focus on issues such as strengthening institutions such as regulators and Competition Commission, while pitching for a more plural and inclusive growth model and ensuring that the government programmes delivered better. His mantra is going to be more competition and efficiency in both private and public sectors and checking monopolistic or cartelisation temptations. "FICCI's main and only objective, therefore, is to ensure that the country has a sustainable and inclusive growth model for the next decade or two that will propel us into the league of developed nations,' he said. In this election year, FICCI, he said, would try and establish a minimum economic agenda for political parties which the leading political parties can include in their manifestoes a minimum common agenda around the core issues of improvement in efficiencies in the economy, institutional framework and government spending on programmes. With that end in mind, he said FICCI was launching a "Politics and governance series' of seminars and discussions among "business, politics and media together to work out systematically what can be a minimum economic agreement across a majority of our polity.'