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'The BJP is racing against its opponents by putting a chain on their legs.'
'I'm talking about that predator in your house, and how one should protect one's children from him.'
'They know that if they do not tie up with the Congress, then the minorities will move to the Congress.'
'If Kejriwal is adamant on running his government from jail, then his government could be dismissed and Article 356 imposed on Delhi, in other words President's rule in Delhi.'
'This is the biggest crisis Kejriwal is facing in his life.' 'If he is able to come out of this, then he will have a great future.'
'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.'
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