'They are calling me an accused without even an inquiry.' 'The video was fabricated and doctored. Now the truth is coming out.'
It is a waste of time to speak up in today's India, believes Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'Look at the aggressive way in which a campaign against Friday namaz is going on in North Indian cities.' 'Even the Union home minister is part of this vicious campaign.'
'This issue is related to national security because they were compromising the entire capital markets's core infrastructure by leaking confidential information.' 'What would have happened if the servers had come down?' 'Or some confidential information leaked to terrorists who could have knocked out our capital market?'
'Mamata's numbers will reduce this time compared to 2016.'
'The Scindias betrayed Jhansi ki Rani and now the Congress party.' 'So this is nothing new as he is repeating the history of his family.'
'The Indian government spent Rs 506 crore on security of the separatists in the last five years.' 'These separatist leaders must know how ordinary people live. Have you ever seen Geelani's son throwing stones?' 'The separatists have encouraged people into this stone throwing business. They have destroyed Kashmir.' Jammu BJP MLA Rajesh Gupta on why separatists must not be given security.
'The BJP will be wiped out from all over India.'
'There are other prisoners too who are behaving in a good manner, but they are not being released sooner.'
The entire campaign in Lucknow is based on Narendra Modi -- there is little mention of the BJP candidate, a certain Rajnath Singh. Some locals wonder, 'Rajnathji is not coming to campaign in Lucknow. How will he take care of this city after he wins?' Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com reports from Lucknow.
'I have learnt from Guru Nanakji that we all must live in harmony and brotherhood and have concern for others.'
She could not believe how much India had changed since the last time she experienced it first hand.
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'The BJP is scared it may lose the Delhi municipal elections where they have been in power for the last 15 years.'
'When you sow a small plant, then you keep watch on it so that wild cattle should not eat that sapling.'
'In 2021, assembly elections are going to be held in Assam. The BJP, sitting in Delhi, is thinking everything is hunky-dory in Assam. But that is not the case.' 'People of Assam are no longer with the BJP.'
'Gaumutra kills all bacteria,' says the Congress corporator from Mumbai, who wants cow urine to clean the city's hospitals.
Why 'anti-Romeo'? Why not 'anti-loafer' squad? Or 'anti-Majnu' squad?' wonders Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'I should not have lifted my hand, but whoever eats the meat of a cow, whom we Hindus consider our mother, these things will happen.'
'I am only asking about his travel bills and expenditure.'
'This is a fascinating side to Sonia Gandhi, the way she disarms her opponents.'
'This government will end after five years, but farmers will not end after five years.' 'This is the source of our confidence.'
'Congress and BSP are in the fray, but not in the contest.'
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Mumbai top cop Rakesh Maria's trusted man Dinesh Kadam also helped crack the 1993 Mumbai serial blasts' case, sent Abu Salem to jail and helped bust the Indian Mujahideen terror network in Mumbai.
'When the Congress tied up with Chandrababu Naidu, they helped trigger Telangana pride.'
With Union Minister Kiren Rijiju stoking a controversy by saying that the Hindu population was falling while minorities are flourishing, Rediff.com's Syed Firdaus Ashraf studied the 2001 and 2011 census data to track the demographic changes in the northeast.
'There was already a cash crunch and this (lockdown) has created more trouble.'
'Every Congress leader in UP and the rest of India is calling me and thanking me that finally someone spoke about this JNU gang ruling the Congress party in UP.'
'When a criminal assumes a new identity he think everybody knows them by that name only.' 'Criminals forget that the police are always hunting for them to put them in jail.'
Reserve Bank of India Deputy Governor Viral Acharya is the eighth economist to quit since the Modi government took office.
'The government must have armed security personnel for doctors and only then they can go and serve people.'
'The Rajputs feel they are being left behind.'
'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.'
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'Muslims must show patience and endurance.' 'The perception that has been created against them needs to be changed by them.'
'If the minister does not resign, then it will be the darkest incident of Indian democracy where power prevailed over the people.'
'During the lockdown if you terminate your employee, then you will face action under the NDMA.' 'This will be the first time something like this will happen in the history of India.'
'We are trying to trace them.' 'We feel their phone batteries must have died because they are travelling by road.'
'We have been appealing to various governments for so many years that there should be no dams in the Himalayas, but no one listens.' 'Nature responded in its own way.'
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