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'If my brother was a criminal they could have filed a case against him and put him on trial. Why kill him?' This is not justice.'
'He only promotes those leaders who will never show any resistance to him in future.'
Santiago Martin has funded Rs 1,368 crore to political parties between October 2020 to January 2024 through electoral bonds.
'The BJP has started a war-like situation against farmers and the Jat community.'
'The Election Commission cannot be regulated by the government.'
'Nowhere does the CAA state that Muslims will be deprived of their Indian citizenship.'
'In the BJP I realised they are a different people with different mindset. They had a different ideology which was more rigid, and somewhere I was not comfortable.'
'Nobody is speaking up for Muslims today.' 'Secular parties too have calmed down because they feel this will hurt the Hindu vote (bank).' 'In this scenario, where does a Muslim go?'
'The Congress government is on its way out in Himachal Pradesh.'
'While other parties generally need support directly from their central leadership to get influencers or celebrities to endorse their party, the work of identifying and contacting such influencers has been decentralised to state and district level IT cells to get more engagement in the BJP.'
'The time has come for all those believe in a democratic India to stand up and be counted and to make a choice.'
'Till today, we don't know how many people died of Covid in India.' 'How many migrated from cities to villages during the Covid pandemic?' 'How many corporates contributed to PM Cares?'
'Had they agreed to our demands that we raised two years ago, we would have never started our agitation again.'
'They just say we agree to your demands in the meetings, which is lip service. But on the ground they do not implement anything.'
'The fact that I got noticed in a film that stars Hrithik Roshan and Deepika Padukone is a big high for me.'
'If a poor voter sees Modi's picture on ration bags, it is natural he will vote for Modi and the BJP.'
'I just invited PM Modi for Kalki Dham for shilanyas, so what crime did I commit as a Congressman?'
'They hate him so much that if PM Modi says the Sun rises in the east the Congress will say the Sun rises in the west.'
'Imran Khan's rule was dismal. Despite this, he has become a cult figure.' 'He sold the dream of a Naya Pakistan to the people of Pakistan, especially the youth, and branded all other politicians as corrupt.' 'Hence, his popularity.'
'Who has given how much money to which party, the people of India must know this fact.'
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