'Hindus have never been polarised across Maharashtra in any state election.'
'Modi is now the biggest messiah of OBCs and Dalits as V P Singh once was.'
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.
'We don't know how and why this happened as the route interlock signal works fine millions of times every day across India.'
Why is the government unwilling to disclose the winners of its DigiDhan Yojana?
'The time has come for all those believe in a democratic India to stand up and be counted and to make a choice.'
Sachin Tendulkar and Rekha's tenures in the Rajya Sabha end this month.
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...
Syed Firdaus Ashraf applauds The Kapil Sharma Show's reincarnation.
'Rahul Gandhi never gets firsthand information. He does not know what is good or bad going on in the party.'
'For free supply of drugs and medicines itself, almost Rs 20,000 crores would be required.'
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.
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.
Coolie No 1 is a cheap comedy for silly people, asserts Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Farmers must get Maximum Support Price instead of Minimum Support Price.'
'...by directing these draconian provisions against political and ideological opponents of the ruling group, minorities, and those who dare to dissent through and selective prosecution and prolonged incarceration as undertrials.'
'People tell us openly that in 2024 we will vote for Modi.'
'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.
'The people of Jharkhand know that Modi is not going to become chief minister, so why should they vote for the BJP?'
'Had they agreed to our demands that we raised two years ago, we would have never started our agitation again.'
'Mamata Didi is the only politician who can take on the might of Modi.'
'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.
'We moved out just in time. The fire spread so fast.'
'All is well in Visakhapatnam for now.'
'It could backfire on the BJP and boost the Opposition parties.'
'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.'
'...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%.'
'He was provided sustenance by the British.' 'Many times he wrote to the British that he needed an increase in pension.'
'The government never asked any transport association before making this law on hit and run cases.' 'MPs only clapped to Amit Shah's new law and never questioned him about this law.' 'Are these MPs not bothered about the lives of drivers?'
Over 1,200 Indian students stranded at Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine make a desperate call for help.
'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.
'Shinde and Fadnavis have different working styles and certainly there is a crack that has come between them.'
'We do not want Kashmiri Pandits to migrate from Kashmir.'
Say hello to the Guddu Rangeela team!
'The Congress didn't win elections only on soft Hindutva.'
'We are a country of amazing ability and the way we have responded to the pandemic is evidence.'
'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.'
'Even if not me, there are other deserving candidates from Maharashtra in the Congress who should have been given the Rajya Sabha ticket.'
'Badle ki bhavna (revengeful politics) was never seen in Maharashtra and Indian politics, but now we are witnessing all that today.'
