'For free supply of drugs and medicines itself, almost Rs 20,000 crores would be required.'
'People tell us openly that in 2024 we will vote for Modi.'
'Yogi was there, but ultimately the BJP got extremely worried and therefore Modi pitched in.'
So worried is Shiv Sena rebel leader Eknath Shinde of desertions that he is asking rebel MLAs in Guwahati to sign affidavits affirming that they won't go back on supporting the 'cause of Hindutva' after reaching Mumbai.
No one can make the audience laugh like Govinda, raves Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'We request the Indian government that they send some buses urgently so that we can travel in groups and reach safety.'
'They will be in prison all their life and they will understand what suffering means to Reuben's and Keenan's families.'
'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 India which was all about glamour and razzmatazz through which he could earn the trust of people of the other India, which was Bharat.'
'Modi is now the biggest messiah of OBCs and Dalits as V P Singh once was.'
'For no other leader of India do so many people turn up for an event every year without invitation.'
'Assam is not a dumping ground for Bangladeshi Hindu refugees,' says Assamese actor Ravi Sharma who joined the BJP in August and quit the party on December 10 in protest against the Citizenship Act.
'Shinde and Fadnavis have different working styles and certainly there is a crack that has come between them.'
'These new laws give complete (impunity) to the police.' 'Whatever little accountability the police had, all that is gone now.' 'There is no accountability mechanism against the police for abusing or misusing in the new laws.'
'...to address the serious faultlines that had got exposed during the pandemic.' 'If the economy is looking up this year, we could have been allocated an increase of at least 20%.'
If Govinda wants to give Bollywood's filmmakers a wake up call, he needs to do a film that showcases his acting talent, writes Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Sanju is a repeat of Munnabhai, feels Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'You will really wish oh! Had I stayed in Dharavi I would have got a nice house. I can assure you that. We will make dreams come true.'
'The central government forces are supporting one group and the state government forces are supporting another group and this is resulting in non-stop cross-firing, which has resulted in the killing of many innocent people.'
After watching Uri: The Surgical Strike, Syed Firdaus Ashraf gets the feeling that Modi has added another tool to help him win the 2019 Lok Sabha election: Hindi cinema...
Sachin Tendulkar and Rekha's tenures in the Rajya Sabha end this month.
'If Israel had stuck to the peace accords, Hamas would have had no one to fight.'
'UCC should be across India and legally applicable to every Indian citizen.'
Coolie No 1 is a cheap comedy for silly people, asserts Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
Syed Firdaus Ashraf applauds The Kapil Sharma Show's reincarnation.
'Farmers must get Maximum Support Price instead of Minimum Support Price.'
Hamid Nihal Ansari, a software engineer from Mumbai, returned to India in December 2018 after spending six years in a Pakistani jail for illegally entering the neighbouring country from Afghanistan, reportedly to meet a girl he had befriended online. He was arrested in 2012 and lodged at Peshawar jail after Pakistan had slapped espionage charges against him. The decision to release him was on account of relentless pressure from New Delhi and Sushma Swaraj, who was the external affairs minister and was personally monitoring the case. Speaking to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com, Ansari recalls the time he spent with her and says that if it wasn't for her efforts, he would still be rotting away in a Pakistani cell.
'Mamata Didi is the only politician who can take on the might of Modi.'
'The wife will not only abuse her husband for giving her less money, but also abuse the government.' 'Look at the price of a cooking gas cylinder, it is Rs 1,200.'
Indians waiting patiently in serpentine queues outside Mumbai banks tell Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf they are ready to suffer for the larger good of the country.
'Badle ki bhavna (revengeful politics) was never seen in Maharashtra and Indian politics, but now we are witnessing all that today.'
'Writers are always nervous.' 'If you go to a party, you will notice that the writers are always in a corner of the party, looking anxious, sweating and tense about something or the other.' 'I am that kind of person.'
'If they don't make Ajit Pawar chief minister, what can he do?'
'She showed courage at every turn in her political career.'
'He told senior journalists a few days after the Babri Masjid demolition, 'Jo hua theek hua. Maine isliye hone diya ki BJP ki rajniti hamesha ke liye khatam ho jaye.'
'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.'
'The upper caste elite's belief that they are casteless is a belief that is available only to the upper castes. Because all the lower castes are reminded by society every day what their caste is.'
'We do not want Kashmiri Pandits to migrate from Kashmir.'
Over 1,200 Indian students stranded at Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine make a desperate call for help.
'The Indian Army and paramilitary have to land more in Assam as the situation is very bad, especially in upper Assam,' says BJP MLA Binod Hazarika whose home was burnt down by mobs.
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