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December 8
'The NCP winning one assembly seat only eight months after I became party president speaks volumes for our effectiveness.' -- Former Union minister Vidya Charan Shukla in an interview to rediff.com

December 4
"I had said earlier that if I am not able to take my party to a victory, I will not accept any organisational post nor contest an election for the next ten years. I stand by my statement." Digvijay Singh.

November 30
Whether you call it a semi-final or referendum, we are going to win in all the states. After the poll results are out, NDA allies are going to desert the Bharatiya Janata Party. -- Congress general secretary Ahmed Patel.

November 29
In elections, caste is always a factor. It helps and harms all political parties equally. -- Pramod Mahajan, BJP general secretary, in an interview to rediff.com

November 28
You are talking to a super cool, confident person. I am an ideology-based person. For me there is no defeat. -- Uma Bharti in an exclusive interview with rediff.com .

November 27
Whether you call it a semi-final or referendum, we are going to win in all the states. After the poll results are out, NDA allies are going to desert the Bharatiya Janata Party. -- Congress general secretary Ahmed Patel.

November 25
When we as Indians have not been able to forgive the atrocities committed by Mughal rulers more than 300 years back, how can we forgive the Congress for Blue Star and the 1984 riots? -- SGPC president G S Tohra, while asking Sikhs to vote for the BJP.

November 24
There is no such religion like 'Hinduism'. This 'Hindu' word came from the Persian because all people living this side of the river Sindhu, Sindh, were called Sindhus and because in Persian 'S' is pronounced as 'H', so we all became Hindus. -- Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh, in an interview to rediff.com

The NDA government is running on its own momentum. There is no direction, there is no leadership as such. Each ministry is working in its own cocoon. It's functioning just because it has to function. -- Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijay Singh, in an interview to rediff.com

She is like a daughter to me. She does not even know the constituency. She will go around for some time and then we will see her off on December 1. -- Former Delhi chief minister Madan Lal Khurana on his greenhorn Congress opponent Alka Lamba.

November 21
How can I be an outsider? I am from this country. I am married to the Maharaja of Dholpur, and I have represented Jhalawar in the Lok Sabha. -- Rajasthan BJP chief Vasundhara Raje Scindia, in an interview to rediff.com

People thought poverty would go once the British went. It has not happened. We have not converted freedom to self sufficiency. -- Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani at a rally in Bhopal.

'Politics is not my pleasure or my business, it is my dharma.' -- Shivraj Singh Chauhan, BJP candidate against Chief Minister Digvijay Singh in Raghogarh.

November 20
'Illiterate and innocent tribals are hoodwinked into believing that by converting they will reach heaven. Have you ever found out what the plight of those converted people is?' -- BJP politician Dilip Singh Judeo, in an interview to rediff.com.

November 19
'Allegations of corruption were made against former prime ministers Indira Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi and P V Narasimha Rao and even former Congress president Sitaram Kesri, but none of them quit their posts.' -- BJP president M Venkaiah Naidu at a press conference in Raipur, Chhattisgarh.

November 18
'I don't feel morally weighed down. I always had a clean image and it will continue that way.' -- Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on his name being dragged into the Judeo scandal.

'There is a charge sheet against Jogi. He should not only resign but the case against him should go on. Why should the policy be different in Jogi's case?' -- Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee at an election rally in Bikaner, Rajasthan.

November 10
'Fringe politicians addressing a handful [of people] hardly makes for political presence.' -- Chhattisgarh Chief Minister Ajit Jogi on rival NCP leader V C Shukla's election campaign.


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