'The Speaker should have asked Ramesh Bidhuri to withdraw his words and apologise.'
'Can Trudeau's evidence hold up? If not, he's finished.'
'Switching loyalty from one party to another is completely unfair as it devalues my vote.'
'The government has been anti our civilisational values.' 'My fear would be that they erode that some more to have their way and to consolidate their power.'
'And once someone is dead in a family the ritual is to shave your head.'
'Since September 1, a senior cabinet minister has been to-ing and fro-ing between Jalna and Mumbai by chartered flight every single day with messages from the two deputy chief ministers and the chief minister to get Manoj Jarange-Patil to back down from his agitation.'
'This means the remedy will be worse than the disease. The thing which you want to avoid will happen.'
'The state government, state forces, commandos, police, they are all with the Meiteis in attacking Kuki tribals.'
'It is not just the religious minorities who are being intimidated or targeted.' 'You see an equal intimidation or effort of intimidation towards anyone who does not agree with the Hindutva interpretation of the Hindu faith.'
'... are losing faith in the institutions of government, where people do not believe that the institutions of government operate according to the Constitution, within the confines of the law, where these institutions are seen to be representing a small faction of a particular community against all other (minority) communities.'
'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?'
'Nobody wants to run an exploitation factory.'
'She showed courage at every turn in her political career.'
'When the Congress is put against someone like Narendra Modi, they do not have anything new to offer to the people of India.'
'The Congress is not pragmatic about politics or about people.' 'Rahul's intention is good, but good intention does not win you elections.'
'He told senior journalists a few days after the Babri Masjid demolition, 'Jo hua theek hua. Maine isliye hone diya ki BJP ki rajniti hamesha ke liye khatam ho jaye.'
'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.'
'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.'
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