'The current economic contraction is certainly due to the lockdowns as a response to the pandemic, which is an act of God.' 'Nobody has seen such a thing in the last 100 years.' 'Saying that this was an act of mismanagement is largely incorrect'
The new government order to review the service record of employees who have completed 30 years in the job to identify inefficient or corrupt staff and retire them prematurely has invited the ire of labour unions, who believe that this is a step towards privatisation.
'There is a group who want to internally damage the Congress and they may be hand in glove with the BJP.'
'If timely action was taken by the CBI, the other three murders could have been prevented.'
Shahzad Ali, a sales and marketing manager at a mobile phone company, was among the group of Muslims from Delhi's Shaheen Bagh area who joined the Bharatiya Janata Party on August 16, 2020.
'If the Congress party wants to take on the BJP it cannot do it in this fuddy-duddy, grand old party, style.'
'This letter assumes significance as it is for the first time that a letter has been documented and collectively agreed upon.'
'He was such a diverse poet that he wrote the song M bole toh Master of Munnabhai MBBS and also Yeh Rishta kya kehlata hai of Meenaxi.'
'I challenge BJP spokespersons that they have no idea what their party's ideology is because they believe it is only Modi's party now.'
'He was a nobody then.' 'And whatever little his contribution was there, it was restricted to Gujarat.'
'This is about reviving this country as a centre of Hindutva at Ayodhya.'
'We all know that when the Babri Masjid was demolished, P V Narasimha Rao was prime minister.' 'He did not do anything to stop the demolition.'
'The government says the mortality rate among patients is 2 to 3 per cent, but in doctors it is 11 per cent, which is very high.'
'We are a country of amazing ability and the way we have responded to the pandemic is evidence.'
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'He is not acting solo.' 'The plot may have people within the Congress and outside.'
'The Congress today has lost contact with the Hindu clergy.' 'They go to to Hindu clergy only during the time of elections.'
'It can be said without hesitation that Rahul, Priyanka and Sonia Gandhi enjoy perfect relations of mother-daughter-son all together in the family.' 'But their worldview is different and their style of functioning is different and their favourites in the party are different people.'
'Modi warned China, therefore they have come to the talks.' 'Nothing will come out of these talks.'
'Sachin Pilot had every legitimate right to demand to become CM.'
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