'The Kuki-Zo are aware of this rich resource in their areas and feel the Meitei push for ST status is because of this reason'.
'After having changed chief ministers in Uttarakhand, Tripura, why are they not doing it in Manipur?'
'Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal once told me that if onion prices rise we will face the flak for it across India.' 'What can farmers expect from a government which talks like a trader and only believes in (electoral) profit and loss?'
'Not only are Muslim homes and shops being bulldozed, but the cops are filing random FIRs even against people who died two-three years ago, against those who have moved to neighbouring states since almost two years to work there.'
'At school, on August 15, the Indian flag was raised. There was no national anthem at that time and we sang Rise India Thy Millions Lead,' recalls military legend Major General Ian Cardozo (retd).
'The situation in Nuh could have easily returned to normalcy if the trader class wished so, but they didn't.'
'The BJP should not treat Shinde saheb as a lightweight.'
'We were children and could not distinguish freedom from bondage, but we could understand that a momentous and happy event was imminent.'
'Before going to battle, Captain Anuj Nayyar gave me the engagement ring and photograph of his fiance.' 'I told him, "Why don't you keep it? It will motivate you to fight'.' 'He said he did not want the photograph to fall in the dirty hands of the enemy.' 'I wondered why he was giving it to me. Did he feel he would not return?'
'I told my commander that they were not militants, but full-fledged soldiers with machine guns.'
'There is one negative thing which has happened very quietly. The position of the election commissioner has been downgraded.'
'It has been doing yeoman service for the people of the North East.'
The fight for freedom was long and hard and that is why it is important to go back to the monuments that celebrate those who fought the good fight.
Freedom fighter Dr G G Parikh, activists Tushar Gandhi and Teesta Setalvad were prevented from reaching the August Kranti Maidan on Wednesday morning by the Mumbai police.
'They are afraid that if they approach a police station for filing a complaint they might themselves get arrested under some random charges.'
'The Manipur government is a government now ruled by the mob.'
'The entire electorate of Wayanad is joyful. Rahulji is with us and we are with him wherever he is.'
'If the business before the House is suspended under Rule 267 it will mean the government has recognised that there is great urgency (to discuss the Manipur violence).' 'Government doesn't want to recognise that at all.'
'The district administration failed and it was a very costly failure.'
'They are fighting it out, but they have deeply traumatised; they are alive and they are carrying on in life.'
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