'You haven't heard a peep out of Kashmir so what is going to erupt? What repercussion will be (there) in long term, you will have to (wait) and see'
'We were expecting at least they would be held guilty, but instead they have gone scot-free'
'Crony capitalism will gain due to these Acts.'
'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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'They just want to show that the Congress is in disarray.'
'Sachin Pilot had every legitimate right to demand to become CM.'
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'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.
'The home minister of India has given his assurance to the MP of Lakshadweep.'
'George Fernandes will always be remembered in history as the man who successfully called the railway strike.'
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'No Indian political party functions in a democratic way.'
'He was full of Hindustan, its tehzeeb and its culture.'
'Will you declare MSP for 100 odd crops that the farmers of India grow?'
'We will resist it.' 'Farmers will not let that happen.'
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'Today, we being the majority pass a law and if the Opposition parties do not like it, they throw files at the Chair, and beat up women marshals.'
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'Where should shudra-OBCs go because of whom the nation is surviving?'
'The Chinese have not crossed the LAC in Galwan.' 'They are on their side of the LAC and we are on our side.'
'When you sow a small plant, then you keep watch on it so that wild cattle should not eat that sapling.'
'I wonder what Zaibunissa Kazi would feel if she saw the trailer for Sanju.' 'An effort that proves movies are made about celebrities who get away after committing a crime while poor souls like Zaibunissa rot all their lives in prison only for knowing a star like Sanjay Dutt,' says Syed Firdaus Ashraf.
'He was a nobody then.' 'And whatever little his contribution was there, it was restricted to Gujarat.'
'They killed one Gauri, but now there will be lakhs of people who will continue to do Gauri's work.'
'In China there is capital punishment for heritage theft. That is how they treat criminals, unlike us.' 'Here we treat them like it's a house-breaking theft.'
'Second-class citizenship would have been meaningless to a Hindu in the Mughal empire.'
'This is a fascinating side to Sonia Gandhi, the way she disarms her opponents.'
'The culture of the BJP has changed and the party too has changed with this new culture. 'The BJP is having bad political management, bad man management, personal management and inter-personal relationships.' 'Therefore, people like me are not in the BJP.'
'I criticise the interference of the army in politics.' 'But the people know I am not anti-Pakistan.' 'Public support is my biggest strength.'
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'Dr Kafeel is being framed by the Yogi government because he talks about the BRD hospital all the time.'
'The government, through the media, is saying that everything is normal in Kashmir, but I just want them to give this in writing and let a judicial commission see it.
'Piyush Goyal is the chief and it is always the chief who is considered to be responsible.'
'Our only request to the Indian government is that they should act fast and send a plane to evacuate us as people around us are dying'
'They are deliberately targeting journalists who are not succumbing to government pressure and therefore these journalists are paying a price.'
'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.'
The BJP could win only 16 out of 57 seats where Shah campaigned.
'Every traffic police station in the city has a policeman designated unofficially as the 'cashier.' 'His job is to collect the bribes and, at the end of every month, distribute this money among the cops according to rank.'
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