'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.'
'Even if not me, there are other deserving candidates from Maharashtra in the Congress who should have been given the Rajya Sabha ticket.'
'The people of Jharkhand know that Modi is not going to become chief minister, so why should they vote for the BJP?'
'He was provided sustenance by the British.' 'Many times he wrote to the British that he needed an increase in pension.'
'All is well in Visakhapatnam for now.'
'With the Citizenship Amendment Bill, Hindus from Pakistan can come to India. They have got a way,' says Gurumukh Jagwani who came to India on his honeymoon, loved the country so much that he stayed back and got Indian citizenship.
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'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.'
'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.
'We moved out just in time. The fire spread so fast.'
'My father's life sends a message that there are positive things happening between India and China, no matter what happens at the border.'
'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.'
'We are a country of amazing ability and the way we have responded to the pandemic is evidence.'
'People of my constituency told me they will continue loving me, but will not vote for me if I am with the BJP.'
'Modi warned China, therefore they have come to the talks.' 'Nothing will come out of these talks.'
'As far as I know, Sachin Pilotji is not going to the BJP.'
'All this while he has been maintaining that he is innocent and, if that is the case, why will he run away?'
'The Congress didn't win elections only on soft Hindutva.'
'You need to have enough funds to maintain the primacy of public transport and it should not suffer because of lack of funds.'
'Had it not been for the complicity of the state and Biren Singh's leadership, these riots would not have spread this far and for so long.'
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'Therefore, these people want Imran Khan out of the elections whenever it is held.' 'For this, he will have to be disqualified from contesting on the basis of cases against him, declaring that he is not sadiq (honest) and ameen (righteous).'
'Siddaramaiah was openly taking on the BJP's communal agenda, which very few non-BJP politicians do.'
'Switching loyalty from one party to another is completely unfair as it devalues my vote.'
'All restaurants and pubs must treat the issue seriously and appoint safety officers. This chalta hai attitude cannot work.'
'I am not sure of the numbers killed, but they were not as high as the use of the word 'genocide' suggests.' 'There is another meaning you could take, 'cultural genocide', in that the Pandit community is extremely small and their forced departure led to a wiping out of their culture.'
'The collegium system will remove any such doubts from the minds of people and the political parties.'
'Israel has received an extremely hard and rude reminder that it cannot go ahead and talk of normalisation of relations with other Arab countries without addressing the issues pertaining to Palestine.'
'A slum free Mumbai cannot happen with Dharavi at the centre of the city.'
'Since I was held at gunpoint I had no option but to give them the car keys.' 'They took the car and drove away.'
'This trope must have been taken in 30 films.' 'The rogue agent is a common trope and not something unique.'
'The Indian government evacuated its citizens from the clutches of the Taliban and Covid-hit Wuhan, so I am not worried.'
'At present there might be at least 500 Indians stuck in Iran for various reasons and we have no idea when they will come back.'
'It was Maulana Azad's foresight which created the IITs, UGC, science academies across the country.'
'If we want a stable society, then all groups must feel that they have a seat at the table of power.'
'We are losing the battle of secularism, but we have not lost.'
'I am very grateful to Rajnathji that he confirmed the fact that Savarkar was a habitual mercy-seeker from the British.'
'We had to respect the sentiments of the people of Jammu as our party was elected from Jammu.'
'Centres like polling booths can be set up for the area till the last adult is vaccinated -- open on all days from 9-9.' 'People should be able to come as per their convenience.'
'I am not the Manas Deka who attacked Kanhaiya,' says the BJP activist who shares the same name with the man who allegedly tried to 'strangle' the JNUSU leader.
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