'There is one negative thing which has happened very quietly. The position of the election commissioner has been downgraded.'
'They said that my leaving for the Quit India Movement event would be a threat to law and order so I should not leave the police station and to be stationed there till the time they do not get permission.'
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.'
'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.'
'The situation is so bad that it is not possible for me to explain in words how bad the conditions are for the common man of Manipur.'
'They are fighting it out, but they have deeply traumatised; they are alive and they are carrying on in life.'
'Government supplied public services are less likely to be found in neighbourhoods with high numbers of Scheduled Castes and Muslims.'
'Is this how you plan to run India? Is this how you plan to save India?' 'If this is your plan, then what happened in Manipur will start happening all over the country.'
'We cannot leave our entire unorganised sector to the vagaries of market forces.'
'Every Congressman in Rajasthan is in Ashok Gehlot's pocket.'
'They could have told the media that there is nothing in it and let me read it out.'
'It's unfortunate that the prime minister prioritises his own image over the humanitarian situation that is unfolding in Manipur, prioritising his ego over the atrocities that women and tribals have had to suffer in Manipur.'
'We cannot accept that this incident was not in the knowledge of the home ministry.' 'If they had no knowledge about this incident, then it is a big intelligence failure as the Union home ministry has no idea what is going on in Manipur and what the state police is doing.'
'ISRO takes a very cautious approach.' 'After reaching the moon, the orbit has to be brought down from a single elliptical orbit to a circular orbit while simultaneously ensuring the stability of Chandrayaan 3 and the health parameters of the lander and rover.'
'UCC should be across India and legally applicable to every Indian citizen.'
'How can such barbarity, bestiality, happen in modern India?'
'A very large part of this would have come from opium.'
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