Voices

India Today, February 22, 1999
Feb 22, 1999

"The net result is that we have made Sonia Gandhi acceptable to the people of the country."
Madan Lal Khurana, BJP leader, on mudslinging within his party

"You allowed the cricket match. But what is required is a final match on the battlefield."
Acharya Dharmendra, VHP leader, in a reference to Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee

"The moment a serious message is conveyed to them through action, they will stop. I have unshakeable faith in their cowardice."
Javed Akhtar, poet and script-writer, on the Sangh Parivar

"The stronger we become in Uttar Pradesh, the stronger we become in Delhi."
Sonia Gandhi, Congress chief, at the party's Hardwar session

"Why should we oppose his visit here? He has written against Islam, hasn't he?"
Bal Thackeray, Shiv Sena chief, on the Government's decision to grant visa to writer Salman Rushdie

"It's a bitter pill which has to be swallowed to meet financial difficulties."
S.S. Barnala, Union chemicals and fertilisers minister, on the hike in prices, in The Times of India

"You sign two films with a hero and it's said you're having a scene with him."
Rani Mukherjee, actress, in Filmfare