'As soon as the BJP feels they are going to lose power, they will publish the caste census data of 2011 and conduct the caste census of 2021.'
'He used to come to the cinema hall like he was visiting a temple for worship.'
'The government is not ready to talk to us. They have their own agenda.'
'Bommai was a minister in my cabinet. It is not ethically correct.'
'The actual amount due to Jet Airways employees is Rs 1,200 crore, and the management is giving only Rs 52 crore.'
''He had given tools to fight all forms of homogenisation.'
'This is not the first time that a large contingent of Assam armed police led by senior officers attacked and destroyed farm huts, crops and plantations of Mizo farmers.' 'There have been a series of such intrusions in the past and the pace of such intrusions increased in the recent past.'
The Lingayat community will be appeased if the next chief minister is also a Lingayat.
'I approached the ministries for a response, but they did not respond on time, so I had to approach the court.'
'BJP takes Lingayat support and later on they throw them out, ditch them and humiliate them.' After months of speculation Karnataka Chief Minister B S Yediyurappa resigned from the chief minister's post. A powerful Lingayat community leader, Yediyurappa could not even complete his term, owing to the internal politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party. So how does Lingayat community view his exit? Congress working president, Karnataka state and Lingayat leader Eshwar Khandre speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, said, "The community which voted him and felt that they will lead the government are now disenchanted."
'The Government of India could aggressively promote developmental projects that will alleviate poverty particularly in communities where South Africans of Indian origin and our black brothers and sisters live as neighbours.'
'Sometimes we succeed, sometimes we don't.' 'But you can use the RTI to improve the future.'
'BJP leaders are trying to save their lives in Punjab.'
'He was full of Hindustan, its tehzeeb and its culture.'
'Why do the English-speaking class feel they are the only ones who are efficient in work?' 'My own mother was from a village and she was more efficient than me. She used to handle crises better than me.' 'We will have to come out of our elite perception of governance.'
'Destabilising the Yediyurappa government is not a cakewalk.' 'If he is destabilised, then the BJP will have problems in Karnataka.'
'After Father Stan Swamy's death one thing has become very clear, that if you fight for justice in India you will be called a Maoist by the State.'
'No action will be taken against Ajit Pawar. I am sure.'
'We know how to kill a terrorist, but we do not know how to stop an innocent boy getting radicalised.'
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