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	March 20, 2000

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"The Vajpayee Government has unleashed an era of cultural terrorism. The real face of the RSS is now showing through the mukhota (mask)."
Sonia Gandhi, Congress president, at a rally in Delhi

"It is incorrect to say 'women empowerment'. Women do not have to be given power. They must use the power they have."
Jaya Jaitly, president, Samata Party, on the eve of the International Women's Day, in Delhi

"We intend converting silver into platinum lest it becomes junk."
Arun Jaitley, minister in charge of disinvestment, on the Left charge that privatisation is like selling family silver to pay the grocer

"Fundamentalists are of one kind. They have no religion, language or ideology."
Taslima Nasreen, Bangladeshi writer, in Mumbai

"Indian cricket is a political minefield and thus the laughing stock of the world."
Sunil Gavaskar, former cricketer, in The Times of India

"My party will not oppose the legislation on separate statehood for Jharkhand."
Laloo Prasad Yadav
RJD President

"How many times is Mr Yadav going to change his stand on the Jharkhand issue?"
Sushil Kumar Modi
Bihar Parliamentary Affairs Minister

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