Syed Firdaus Ashraf covers national politics, and sometimes movies too -- a truly wide arc! You can e-mail the author at firdausa@rediff.co.in
'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.'
'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.'
'UCC should be across India and legally applicable to every Indian citizen.'
'A very large part of this would have come from opium.'
'People tell us openly that in 2024 we will vote for Modi.'
'I have never seen a common man tapping a chief minister on the shoulder and giving him his petition, like needing money for a child admitted in a hospital.'
'The buildings all around had caved in or were damaged. The trees were all uprooted. Things were very scary.'
'Ajit Pawar's speech leaves no room for reconciliation.'
'If they don't make Ajit Pawar chief minister, what can he do?'
'They want to win 45 out of 48 seats in Maharashtra in the 2024 general elections and joining hands with Ajit Pawar is in that direction.'
'The cousins do not have a good rapport with each other in politics, though they may be having a good rapport with each other in family life.'
Did the fear of central agencies probing scams involving NCP leaders that forced these politicians to jump ship?
Unofficially though, it is claimed that Ajit Pawar has the support of 29 MLAs, and the number could add up within two days.
'This committee underscores the Indian State's longstanding conventional approach to leverage top-down conflict management in North East India in general and Manipur in particular.' 'Trying to 'manage' violent conflicts top-down has not worked in the past, and apparently does not seem to work this time either.'
'Deeply hurt by Modi's conspicuous silence for over a month-and-a-half since the outbreak of violence, people in Manipur came on the roads and crushed their radio sets to express their frustration and anger.' 'The fact that Modi's Mann Ki Baat did not have a single reference to the Manipur violence further accentuated this hurt and anger.'
'Shinde and Fadnavis have different working styles and certainly there is a crack that has come between them.'
'Hindus have never been polarised across Maharashtra in any state election.'
'We don't know how and why this happened as the route interlock signal works fine millions of times every day across India.'
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