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'This bitterness will be more in Jammu area than in Kashmir.'
'We are hoping that in three-four days we will surely get a positive result.'
'These kinds of tunnels are not meant for the Himalayas.' 'Development should be good for all people and not where you make a tunnel and 40 people get trapped.'
'The India which was all about glamour and razzmatazz through which he could earn the trust of people of the other India, which was Bharat.'
'For no other leader of India do so many people turn up for an event every year without invitation.'
'I was never why I was denied a ticket to contest the assembly elections.'
'It could backfire on the BJP and boost the Opposition parties.'
'The upper caste elite's belief that they are casteless is a belief that is available only to the upper castes. Because all the lower castes are reminded by society every day what their caste is.'
'This decision to go with the BJP is Kumaraswamy's individual decision and not a party decision.'
'The State does not accept our rights, what more can I say about this judgment?'
'This government has done positive things, we got the Transgender Persons (protection of rights) Act under this government. Dheere-dheere hota hai.'
'Israelis not only harassed Palestine Muslims, but also Christians.' 'Palestinians have been telling Israel that this will blow up the situation, but they would not listen to us.'
'If Israel had stuck to the peace accords, Hamas would have had no one to fight.'
'The Centre prevaricates on the question of effecting a change of state-level leadership or on the imposition of President's rule in the state.'
'Replacement of the CM with a more acceptable face may be a good start towards resolving Manipur's problem.'
'Israel has received an extremely hard and rude reminder that it cannot go ahead and talk of normalisation of relations with other Arab countries without addressing the issues pertaining to Palestine.'
'As long as economic growth remains steady, creating jobs and generating stable incomes, the rise in home loans should not create problems.' 'If the growth trajectory changes course over the medium term and interest rates rise along with inflation, the expanding trend in home loans may not sustain.'
'Switching loyalty from one party to another is completely unfair as it devalues my vote.'
'And once someone is dead in a family the ritual is to shave your head.'
'Nobody wants to run an exploitation factory.'
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