All stories by SYED FIRDAUS ASHRAF
'Prime Minister Of India Has Become The High Priest Of Hinduism'
Rediff.com23 Jan 2024'We are very close to become a theocratic State where Hinduism is the official religion of the government.'
BJP Tops Google Ads Spend In 2023, Guess Who's 2nd?
Rediff.com17 Jan 2024Surprisingly, the BJP's nearest rival in ad spend was not the Congress, but the Bharat Rashtra Samithi.
'Toll on Mumbai trans-harbour bridge should be Rs 500, not Rs 250'
Rediff.com12 Jan 2024'You need to have enough funds to maintain the primacy of public transport and it should not suffer because of lack of funds.'
'Dharavi will be a piece of art and I will ensure it'
Rediff.com10 Jan 2024'You will really wish oh! Had I stayed in Dharavi I would have got a nice house. I can assure you that. We will make dreams come true.'
'How can the US tolerate such injustice against the Palestinians?'
Rediff.com4 Jan 2024'This award is funded by American money so I took this decision.'
'Truck drivers don't get a life of dignity in India'
Rediff.com3 Jan 2024'The government never asked any transport association before making this law on hit and run cases.' 'MPs only clapped to Amit Shah's new law and never questioned him about this law.' 'Are these MPs not bothered about the lives of drivers?'
'I Removed Sonia Gandhi's Photo, Not Gandhi's'
Rediff.com2 Jan 2024'It was my first day in office, so you cannot blame me for the missing photos.' 'I had to join the office and sit on the chair at a particular mahurat time.'
'These laws are equipped to suppress democracy'
Rediff.com27 Dec 2023'...by directing these draconian provisions against political and ideological opponents of the ruling group, minorities, and those who dare to dissent through and selective prosecution and prolonged incarceration as undertrials.'
'New Laws Will Make India A Police State'
Rediff.com26 Dec 2023'These new laws give complete (impunity) to the police.' 'Whatever little accountability the police had, all that is gone now.' 'There is no accountability mechanism against the police for abusing or misusing in the new laws.'
'We are not asking for the moon from Adani'
Rediff.com21 Dec 2023'Gautam Adani will not be able to step inside Dharavi.' 'We will ensure Adani will not get what he wants.' 'Adani has no reason to do politics with people of Dharavi but he is still doing it.'
'Intruders were heading to PM's seat'
Rediff.com13 Dec 2023'Many MPs felt they were going to take out a weapon and shoot us all.'
'There is no specific time frame for the government to restore statehood'
Rediff.com12 Dec 2023'This verdict means that if there is presidential rule anywhere in any state of India, that state can be dismembered and from a state can be downgraded to a Union territory.'
'15 million people of Jammu and Kashmir are bitter'
Rediff.com11 Dec 2023'This bitterness will be more in Jammu area than in Kashmir.'
'100% guarantee all workers are alive'
Rediff.com20 Nov 2023'We are hoping that in three-four days we will surely get a positive result.'
'What is happening is not vikas but vinash'
Rediff.com17 Nov 2023'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.'
'Subrata Roy was arbitraging between India and Bharat'
Rediff.com16 Nov 2023'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.'
'Ambedkar's contribution is bigger than Gandhi's'
Rediff.com10 Nov 2023'For no other leader of India do so many people turn up for an event every year without invitation.'
'Obviously, you get upset at being denied a ticket'
Rediff.com9 Nov 2023'I was never why I was denied a ticket to contest the assembly elections.'
'If Kejriwal is arrested...'
Rediff.com31 Oct 2023'It could backfire on the BJP and boost the Opposition parties.'
'Not counting caste is as political an act as counting it'
Rediff.com31 Oct 2023'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.'