Voices

India Today, December 21, 1998
Dec 28, 1998

"The Congress cannot fight the BJP alone. If it could, then the BJP would not have been No. 1 today."
Mulayam Singh Yadav, Samajwadi Party chief

"The allies are sticking on like a leech ... they are hanging together with the BJP and will fall together."
A B Bardhan, CPI general secretary, on the BJP-led Government at the Centre

"Has lesbianism spread like an epidemic that it should be portrayed as a guideline to unhappy wives not to depend on their husbands?"
Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, on the theme of Deepa Mehta's film Fire and the controversy surrounding it

"Politicians discuss many things in public. Let us end the chapter here."
Laloo Prasad Yadav, RJD chief, on his wife and Bihar chief minister Rabri Devi's harsh words against the state governor

"Though the world may not be seeing India's full potential or feeling its full power, no one dare ignore it anymore."
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, scientific adviser to the defence minister, in his autobiography Wings of fire

"The bronze was in my pocket. So I thought I should run for the gold."
Jyotirmoyee Sikdar, on winning the Asian Games 1,500 m gold

"The day I got married, I became a one-woman man."
Sunil Shetty, actor, in Cine Blitz

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