India Today: Voices

India Today
April 13, 1998

The BJP is a party with double faces -- two manifestos, two leaders (A.B. Vajpayee and L.K. Advani) and dual membership.
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party president

I was branded 420 by the CPI(M). Then what will Jyoti Basu's number be? He has ruled West Bengal for 20 years now.
Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress chief

Congressmen may have enjoyed Sukh Ram's sukh (prosperity) when he was in that party. In our company, he is only sookha (ordinary) Ram.
Sushma Swaraj, BJP leader and I&B minister

The present coalition is a political accident.
Arjun Singh, Congress leader, in The Sunday Observer

I call the TV a dhobi ghat--what with all the soaps and more soaps.
Bal Thackeray, in Filmfare

No transnational will be asked to go. But they will be made to feel that they aren't really welcome in this country.
Jay Dubashi, BJP's economic ideologue, in Business Today

I feel insecure when I have to dance with Govinda or fight with Ajay Devgan. Amitabh Bachchan, actor, in Filmfare

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