'When the chief minister saw how Manoj Jarange Patil had successfully held the state government hostage to his whims, Eknath Shinde knew he had a very clear chance of enamouring himself to these Maratha agitators by accepting Patil's demands.'

'It was my late husband Durga Soren (Hemant Soren's elder brother) who built the party and strengthened it.' 'It was due to his strengthening efforts that we have today a JMM government in the state.'

'After Manoj Jarange Patil began his long march towards Mumbai on January 20, he kept increasing his demands and the government meekly surrendered to him.'

'If individual stocks start falling 25% to 30% or more, then I doubt how many of them will be able to withstand that (kind of selloff). That is when you'll see panic coming in.'

'Sell part of your portfolio where you're making good money, especially in small caps and mid caps.' 'The money which you take home is yours. The money which is there on paper is not yours.

'The Supreme Court has now demonstrated its capacity to right its own wrongs, and to place the rule of law above all else.'

'The state of Gujarat was to my mind 'partisan and over enthusiastic' in the way it dealt with remission applications.'

'Approaching the SC, getting a favourable decision and overturning the situation (the speaker's order), will be too much to ask for in too short time.'

'You can wake up a person who is sleeping, but how do you wake up a person who's pretending to sleep.'

'We have interesting leads on the agents. The roles of agents in this entire operation, who were doing what.'

'Their role model is Iran: high control of the citizens by the State.' In Iran it is Islamic control; in India, it will be Hindutva control.'

'90 per cent of India's population is vaccinated; they are immunised. We need not worry.'

'Certain groups should be more cautious, especially the 60-plus population, and the population which suffer from co-morbidities like diabetes and hypertension.'

'The Bills (Bharatiya Saksha, Bharatiya Nagarik Sanhita and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita) are arbitrary, opaque and ambiguous and structurally quite violent.'

'I don't know why they should feel scared. They have a big majority, they shouldn't feel scared.' 'They should let us speak and then they can always vote however they want to. I have no idea (what's scaring the government).' 'It actually baffles me why they should indulge in these kinds of tactics.'

'The idea of subversive activities is so vague that it could include making fun of the government, being critical of the government.'

'Bringing in Dr Mohan Yadav as the Yadav-OBC face from Ujjain as chief minister, and a scheduled tribe leader Jagdish Devda from Mandsaur district, and a Brahmin face Rajendra Shukla from Rewa, the BJP is making an attempt to put in place a new caste equation in the state keeping an eye on the general elections next year.'

'It could have been lethal and the consequences would have been very tragic.'

'Rahul should have learnt so much in the last 20 years. But give him a mic and he begins to talk without thinking about its consequences.'

'Once elected, you have to act like people's representative for the full five years or else people show you your place.'