Development should be the priority, Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) new chief Nitin Gadkari said on Thursday while emphasising that he didn't believe in criticism of the government for the sake of it.

"I don't believe in the criticism for the sake of criticism. I have not chosen politics as a career. I believe politics is an instrument of socio-economic reform," Gadkari said in his first news conference after he took over as the BJP president last week.