'Two years ago I told Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi that we have traitors in the Congress.'
'Mamata Didi is the only politician who can take on the might of Modi.'
'A country cannot be run on lines that everyone should be in agreement and those who disagree should be silenced.' 'If this is how they look at democracy, then I can only wish good luck to the future of parliamentary democracy in India.'
'The decline of the Congress party and its inability to play the lead role in Opposition politics has created a space for the TMC to expand.'
Satyamev Jayate 2 has a dated, circa 1990s script which won't find acceptance with today's generations, observes Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'We don't trust the prime minister's words on repealing the laws because he had promised us that he will implement the Swaminathan Commission report, but he never did.'
'Only then will we withdraw the agitation.'
'Punjab elections are there and so are UP elections. They must have done some calculations (before announcing the repeal).'
'Had these three farm laws existed it would have become a huge election issue.'
Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf does a comparative analysis of suicide numbers released by the NCRB. Data: Hemantkumar Shivsaran/Rediff.com.
'The Maoists have weakened considerably in Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh after Milind Teltumbde's death.'
On his first visit to Srinagar post the abrogation of Article 370, Home Minister Amit Shah claimed that incidents of terrorism have declined and stone-throwing incidents too have ended in Jammu-Kashmir.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf unravels the chronology of controversy in the Aryan Khan drug bust case.
You neither get goosebumps nor the adrenaline rush of desh bhakti, which a film like Sardar Udham should give every Indian, observes Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'He was provided sustenance by the British.' 'Many times he wrote to the British that he needed an increase in pension.'
'This is a crisis which did not happen overnight. It was happening slowly.' 'Now we are mining very fast and this crisis won't last long.'
'I am very grateful to Rajnathji that he confirmed the fact that Savarkar was a habitual mercy-seeker from the British.'
'I was not there at the spot and I don't know who was driving the car.' 'It is a matter that needs to be investigated by the police and it is their job,' says the father of the journalist who was killed in Lakhimpur Kheri.
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