'If the Congress party wants to take on the BJP it cannot do it in this fuddy-duddy, grand old party, style.'
'Dr Shashi Tharoor by far is a much better choice.'
'... as has been happening in the last three weeks, then the foreign exchange reserves will not be comfortable to ensure that the rupee does not fall drastically.'
'It was disappointing on two counts. One is on the leadership issue and second is how the Congress must win elections.'
'After the NRC in Assam, things have changed for Muslims in India.'
'We want Muslims to go about their work and business unhindered.' 'They should not get victimised and that will only come through the process of reconciliation.'
Will he take Modi's 'sab ka saath, sab ka vikas' route? Or will he turn UP into Egypt under Morsi, asks Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'To all those then who talk about ending Brahminical hegemony, my advice is: Get the Brahmins on your side,' says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'They want to establish the silence of the graveyard in university campuses across India.' 'They cannot bear any questioning or dissent. They want subordination and obedience.' 'And that is not going to happen,' says Communist Party of India-Marxist leader Brinda Karat.
'Government intervention in agricultural trade is a problem for farmers.'
'The cases have not reduced because the prosecution has found some other way to stop people from using their right to free speech.'
'Every Indian knows why the BJP is targeting Hamid Ansari.'
'Kejriwal tries to project that his party is not Hindu virodhi.'
'South movies have the perfect script, the perfect action and the perfect romance.' 'That's why these films are running in theatres.'
'Most senior Congress leaders in Assam have a secret understanding with the BJP.' 'They are hobnobbing with the chief minister for their self-interest.'
This was the second time D K Shivakumar foiled Amit A Shah's plans.
Facing ire over his alleged inflammatory speech warning Muslims of a 'final battle', Union Minister of State for Human Resource and Development Ram Shankar Katheria claims he did not make any such comments.
'303 seats ki sarkar has problems with a cartoonist.'
'I want the Supreme Court to give directions to the government of Kerala that they must give protection to all those women who want to enter Sabarimala.'
'The PM of India was 20 km away from the Pakistan border and he is one of the persons under extreme threat from that country and they put his life in danger.'
'Cultural nationalism or the victim card that you play is okay when people are well fed.' 'But if you are not well fed, then it puts a question mark (on your leadership).'
How the demonetisation drives in India and Venezuela have played out.
'When the Taliban took over there was a genuine fear that they will harm me, but right now that fear is not there.'
'People are questioning these highways and expressways in UP because ultimately, they want to get bread and butter first.'
'Since the RJD came to power, criminals have stopped fearing the law.'
'We need to have a prosperous J-K, where all communities must prosper including Dogras, Gujjars, Sikhs, Muslims and Pandits.' 'Prosperity is the first signal of peace.'
'It is not that I don't want to say "Jai Shri Ram".' I only said I will not say this slogan under any pressure.'
Amitabh Bachchan was preparing to pack up his bags and return to Allahabad if Zanjeer failed.
'Oh god, these workers will now spread the virus! Their only concern was to think about themselves.' 'The middle class was only concerned with flattening the curve of coronavirus and they were not bothered about how these workers live in one room with 10 people or 20 people.'
Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com tracks Prime Minister Narendra Damodardas Modi's project-launching spree with just about three months to go for the assembly election in India's most populous state.
>The BJP's star campaigner could not help even half the number of candidates for whom he campaigned in his aggressive 'Didi-o-Didi' style in Bengal
'The Congress can exist without (someone from) the Nehru-Gandhi family being its president.'
'Two years ago I told Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi that we have traitors in the Congress.'
'That would be very bad for them and suicidal for both the Gandhis and the Congress party.'
'Why did they attack us? What was our fault?' 'They killed a woman. They burnt down vehicles.' 'They pelted stones at us over a 45 km stretch. There was no police bandobast.'
'The government is saying that essential commodities are exempted, but on the ground there is no competent officer from the government who can say which is an essential commodity and which is not.'
'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.'
'Had these three farm laws existed it would have become a huge election issue.'
'Right now, only religious groups of Hindus and Muslims are working on the ground.' 'The government is missing.'
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