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NEWSNOTES
Quote Of The Week
" Does it help to go around
conveying the impression that while this is your government, it doesn't
listen to you?"
A.B.Vajpayee, The prime minister, on criticism from within
the Sangh Parivar.
Other Voices
"Men can wear jeans ...
or go about clean-shaven ... and nobody sprinkles acid on them."
Mehbooba Mufti, People's Democratic Party leader, on the
Lashkar-e-Jabbar's diktat to Muslim women to wear a burqa.
"I was shocked that people
in Guwahati went to work six hours after the sun rose."
Pradyut Bordoloi, Assam minister for technology and science,
campaigning for a separate time zone for the Northeast.
"You will judge from my
decisions whether I am a dummy minister."
Syed Shahnawaz Hussain, Union civil aviation minister, on
the allegation he was appointed to push through disinvestment.
"What is the use of democracy
if scores of people are starving under these governments?"
Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena leader.
 "It's
a science and there is nothing wrong if some people want to do research
in astrology or some people want to study astrology."
Digvijay Singh, Madhya Pradesh chief minister.
 "Digvijay
Singh is very fond of astrologers. He is welcome to consult them before
taking important government decisions."
A.B. Bardhan, CPI general secretary.
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