India Today: Voices

India Today
February 9, 1998

Bapu was killed not by an individual, but by an ideology. The same ideology is killing the country.
Sonia Gandhi, at Bardoli in Gujarat

Lucknow is my city ... I spend 24 hours worrying about it. Mr Vajpayee does not sleep a night here.
Muzaffar Ali, Samajwadi Party nominee, on his BJP rival A.B. Vajpayee

CPI(M) is really opium -- OPI(M). It is the Opportunist Party of India (Multi-millionaires).
Ajit Panja, Trinamool Congress candidate

My plight is like Draupadi's. Everyone watched her being disrobed. None came forward to help her.
P.V. Narasimha Rao, former prime minister, after being denied a Lok Sabha ticket by the Congress

I've waited 40 years. Now it is my turn.
A.B. Vajpayee, BJP PM-in-waiting, at an election rally

Like a cricketer, I've had my innings.
V.P Singh, former prime minister, in The Pioneer

I think there is much more to life than just films and acting.
Anupam Kher, in Cine Blitz