When one of the cadets asked him "had you not been a politician, what would you have been," Modi described it as a "difficult question". "Now this is a very difficult question because every child goes through multiple phases in life. Sometimes one wants to become this, sometimes one wants to become that, but it is true that I never had the desire to enter politics, nor I ever thought about it," he said.

from Times of India https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/never-had-desire-to-enter-politics-pm-modi-in-mann-ki-baat/articleshow/72208030.cms