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Kanyakumari is the tip of India and will convey the symbol that from the tip of India, the Congress is on its way up.
'Why did government not include a provision in the bills which categorically stated that no crop will be sold below the MSP in the open market?'
'There is little appetite in the Democratic foreign policy establishment to pick a fight with India.'
'After the Congress's 2014 Lok Sabha debacle, commentators identified three major shortcomings: Leadership, organisation, and ideology.' 'Here we are six years later -- and what are the Congress's major failings? Leadership, organisation, and ideology.' 'The party seems to have learned very little during its six years in the Opposition wilderness.'
'It will be a repeated folly to ever think that China will not attack us.'
'The BJP and RSS accept that the party is winning election after election because of Modi.' 'If the BJP is winning due to Modi, it will also lose due to Modi.'
'If the BJP continues with Nitish as CM, it will not consolidate its position further in future.'
'The BJP is in no hurry because they have already won the battle.'
'If I win, my victory will shatter the belief that caste is all that matters in Bihar.'
'Having tied himself in knots, he just might take a decision which is dangerous, one that could take his nation to war.'
A group of first time voters who run 10 km everyday to prepare for fauji recruitment rallies, tell Rediff.com's Archana Masih they need two things: quality education and jobs.
'The uneducated think of their rights as a gift. This is deeply troubling.' 'If they were educated they could claim what is rightfully theirs.'
'People may think that because my father was in the film world and politics, things are easy for me.' 'It is not easy at all.'
'Log kehte hai desh to humne Modi ko diya hua hai, par pradesh nahi diya hai (we have given Modi the mandate to run the nation, not the state).'
'He is psychologically preparing the PLA and the Chinese public to avoid a loss of face.'
'The main characteristic of Bihar politics is that it has always affected Delhi.'
'There is a strong possibility that the BJP's seats are going to be much higher compared to the JD-U and this would be the turning point for the BJP.'
'Chirag Paswan's game plan would be to push out Nitish Kumar from this alliance, but that is only possible if the BJP wins about 90 seats and the LJP wins between 25-30 seats.'
'If one puts the context of what Xi Jinping said at the UN about not wanting a 'hot or cold war with any country', one realises that his speech was quite bizarre.' 'The world does not expect such statements from China, a nation aspiring to be a superpower.
'The Chinese thought India would back off. 'They did not expect such a firm Indian response to their expansionist manoeuvre.'
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