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India Today, April 19, 1999
April 19, 1999

"We have been in the Opposition for 40 years, we never hit anyone below the belt. But the Congress cannot wait."
Atal Bihari Vajpayee, prime minister

"It is the engine driver who needs to be worried as he can be removed."
J. Jayalalitha, AIADMK chief, saying that her party was the engine while the BJP was merely the driver

"It's not sheer arithmetic. It is often chemistry between political parties."
P.R. Kumaramangalam, Union minister for power, on the BJP's chances of weathering a no-confidence motion in Parliament

"The contingency plans were ready the day this Government was formed."
Pramod Mahajan, I&B minister, on the threat to the Government

"The Congress strategy for a new government each year will not work this time."
Mamata Banerjee, Trinamool Congress chief

"The Opposition talks about the spring in my steps. But please do not go by the exterior ... I am not in good health."
Jyoti Basu, West Bengal chief minister

"Everything will be alright once the little master is back."
K. Srikkanth, former Indian captain, referring to Sachin Tendulkar

"You have to be an angry young man out here to survive."
Chandrachur Singh, actor, on Bollywood, in Stardust

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