Politicians From India

"‘There was strong opposition to the Tesoy) tion headed by Purushottham Das Tandon, but Gandhiji himgai¢ advised the members to accept the decision of the Working Committee, though he personally thought no good would come, out of it. He asked them to trust their leaders. The Tesolution might not have been passed but for Gandhiji’s advice.’’8"

"Nazimuddin, the first premier of East Bengal, very tactfully managed the affairs of the province for the first eight months of Pakistan ... A year of Pakistan rolled over. Soon a complete reversal of Govt. policy towards the conscious Hindus became glaringly manifest. East Bengal police suddenly became very active with repressive measures against the conscious non-Muslims. Large number of [Hindu] houses, including those of very respectable gentry who had nothing to do with politics, were searched and many arrests made. At the time of house searches and arrests big army and police demonstrations were held to create a sense of terror in the mind of the non-Muslims. A further attack came upon the non-Muslims from the side of the Muslim mob ... Cries of ‘saboteurs’, ‘enemy agents’, “fifth-columnists’, ‘disloyal elements’, etc. were raised by the Pakistan press and responsible official and non-official Muslim leaders almost everywhere in East Bengal. Before a year of the new state was completed, virtually a reign of terror was let loose upon the life of both the urban and rural non-Muslims by the police as well as the officially inspired Muslim mob ... Govt. propaganda made the Muslim masses firmly suspicious that every Hindu in Pakistan was a fifth column of the Indian Union ... In many places, local boards and municipalities, having Hindu majorities, were arbitrarily suspended and their control taken over by the Govt.”"

"3 teerths in Rameshwaram temple were shifted from their original place without even hearing public opinion. Did it hurt religious sentiments? I demolished 100 year old temples of Lakshmi, Saraswati and Parvati on GST road in my constituency (Sriperumbudur). Many told me that I will not get votes because of this. I know that myself. But I know very well how to buy and garner votes. I also detonated rivers Ganga, Cauvery and Kollidam (a tributary of Cauvery on whose banks Srirangam Ranganatha Swamy temple is located) and built bridges. God didn’t do anything to me. If people really believe that Ram Setu is real shouldn’t there be a revolution against the project now?"

"DMK men take pride in demolishing 100-year-old Hindu temples. The very reason we want the HR&CE dissolved and want the temple freed from the clutches of government."

"When Rajiv Gandhi visited Nepal,Sonia Gandhi was not allowed into Pashupatinath Temple because she is Xtian. Even the King could not help. Rajiv imposed a blockade on Nepal to avenge this ‘slight’. This was the point when Nepal began to turn against India."

"For the Hindus there were relatively good times, like the first five years of the republic, average times like the period of Awami League rule in the late nineties up to September 2001, and the brief rule, in 1991, of temporary President, Mr. Justice Shahabuddin Ahmed. There were bad times like the period of Ziaur Rahman’s, or his widow Khaleda Zia’s rule, or Ershad’s rule around the time when he declared Islam to be the state religion. And there were horrible, abysmal, worse-than-Pakistani times like the period when there was a Writ Petition filed in the Calcutta High Court against the Qur’an, when the disputed structure in Ayodhya, often referred to as the Babri Mosque of Ayodhya, India, was demolished by Hindus, and after Khaleda’s Bangladesh National Party (BNP)-led coalition came to power in October 2001."

"[S]he (Taslima Nasrin) cites as many as 145 instances of persecution of Hindus in present- day Bangladesh, taking care to mention the precise location where the act was perpetrated, in terms of Zilla, Upazilla and Gram (respectively district, sub-district and village). These are mostly instances of small-scale, localised persecution, quite apart from the type of countrywide atrocities that took place in October 1990 and again in December 1992."

"Mr Rouf, as my hon. friend Beliram Das has rightly stated on the floor of this House yesterday, in his address as the Chairman of the Reception Committee of the Barpeta Session of the Assam Muslim League did most emphatically declare in presence of Muhammad, the then Premier of Assam that the Mussalmans in the 17th and 18th Centuries conquered Assam with gun and cannons and in this 20th Century they will conquer Assam with ploughs and lathis. What does then this mean except a planned invasion on the part of the Muslim League under the garb of ‘solution of landless problem’ and ‘grow-more-food’ etc."

"Anyone should be allowed to wear anything and go to college to achieve what they want. If someone parading naked is a crime, then uncovering the girls (removing veils) is also a crime. All those people doing such acts are highly ignorant and foolish."

"Banning burqa is completely wrong. If girls want to go to college, then they should be allowed to wear it. There should be no ban on the hijab. And if someone wants to ban it, then that person should be paraded naked. Covering oneself is a culture in India. If you go to a village, our mothers and sisters can be found in ghunghat (veil)."

"We need to work together, we need to snatch our Azadi. Time has now come to achieve Azadi, if we cannot achieve it, we should snatch it. They were mocking us for hiding behind women (during anti-CAA protests). Do not forget, these are lionesses who has come out yet and you are already afraid of these women. Be aware and know what happens if we all (Muslims) unite together... We are 15 crores but be aware we can still dominate over 100 crore Hindus and imagine what we can do to you."

"The attempt on the part of US to police freedom in other countries . . . amounts to violation of the sovereignty of other nations. While it is understandable that the US would want to undertake exercise of this kind, citizens of other nations cannot aid and abet this process without compromising their national pride and patriotism."

"Interreligious dialogue has not yielded any meaningful results. It is time we tried something else."

"He was unhindered when his own daughter-in-law was struggling and fighting for her rights and justice, and now he is speaking out about women’s rights and endorsing the Congress party’s campaign. How can a man speak about the rights of other women if he hasn’t been able to deliver justice to his own daughter-in-law? This is all a ruse to deceive voters ahead of the upcoming Uttar Pradesh elections,” ... “I was told… go wherever you like, to whichever police station you deem fit but you can not harm us. The CM is in our pocket."

"Maulana had said that if law and order come in the hands of their soldiers, then Hindus will not even get a place to live in India. He had also said that the maps of India would be changed. This is the height of hatred."

"Taking to Twitter, BJP’s Shehzad Poonawalla also claimed that Congress was hand-in-glove with Hindu hate-mongers and the party’s true character stood exposed. “Rahul Gandhi claims to be the biggest Hindu during elections! His party has embraced someone who warns of Hindu genocide! Tauqeer Raza was sharing the platform with Congress UP president and has been taken on board to replace Imran Masood?”, he said. “Congress party always practices the politics of dividing, abusing and threatening Hindus, polarizing the Muslim vote bank and then taking their votes. The true character of Congress stands exposed today. Incite riots, provoke the vote bank, abuse Hindus and then earn votes. This is the strategy of the Congress party. Therefore, they have taken the support of Tauqeer Raza,” he added."

"I became a party member in 1965. I was then a student of DM College, Imphal. The next year, I went underground and remained so for 20 years. Initially, I was handling the affairs of the northern part of Mizoram. Till the beginning of 1969, I was roaming around in the forests of Mizoram. Then we shifted our base to East Pakistan."

"I see the anger within my Muslim youths and I am afraid that the day this anger bursts out, the day I lose control over them… I want to warn my Hindu brothers that I’m scared that the day my Muslim youths are forced to take the law into their hands, you will not find a place to hide anywhere in India."

"When we showed Sonia Gandhi the images of the ‘incident’, she started crying bitterly and with folded hands, she said please do not show me these pictures. Immediately go and speak to the Wazir-e-Azam (Dr Manmohan Singh) and discuss the mater. I talked to the PM and it was decided that the matter will be further investigated."

"I will shed rivers of blood of Hindus. I will set their (Hindus’) homes and shops on fire."

"“We are Allah wale, what we say it happens, there will be blood bath Inshallah”, the Islamic leader had said while admonishing PM Modi for bringing in the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA)."

"As per local and regional media reports, Alom said, “Muslims ruled the country from 1199 to 1897, but committed no atrocities on Hindus during that period. However, Muslims have been discriminated against for the last 70 years and there is a conspiracy against Muslims. However, Muslims are more in number in Assam now. If things continue like this, Muslims will attack..they just need some time.” He added, “But we (Muslims) will not move to Bangladesh, we would rather move to China or Burma”."

"Everything may look normal in Kashmir. Everything may look normal here in Delhi, after the election results. The fact remains that under the surface, there is something. What’s happening in Bangladesh can happen here. The spread of our country prevents things from blowing up in the manner in which they have blown up in Bangladesh."

"“Had there been a probe, the entire world would have known that those killed as terrorists should be given the martyr status”, ... “During 2009 elections, Congress had said to me that they would probe Batla House encounter if their govt is formed. They didn’t do it. Muslims will never forget this”"

"In 1969, I became secretary to MNF president Laldenga. I was then 25 years old. We were all in Chittagong. During the war, we escaped to Arakan hills (in Myanmar) before reaching West Pakistan. It was a James Bond-type escape. The directorgeneral of the ISI later told us in Islamabad that they couldn’t imagine how we had managed to escape. Many Pakistani army personnel were killed, caught and imprisoned. We joined a group of refugees and somehow reached the Akyab (now called Sittwe, a famous port in Myanmar). We were there for a month or so. Finally, we took a Pakistani flight from Rangoon to Karachi. Between 1972 and 1975, we were based out of Islamabad."

"Another quit Mizoram notice was served by the MNF on 3 June 1979. This was the only notice which was openly challenged by a chief minister of Mizoram. Brigadier (retd.) Thenphunga Sailo, the chief minister, issued a strong warning to the MNF activists in his speech, which was broadcasted by All India Radio Aizwal on 4 June. Some misguided elements have issued a notice under the caption “Non-Mizo’s” to quit Mizoram before 1st July, 1979; threatening them with dire consequences if they fail to do so. This is politically motivated by self-centred motives and is to prevent peace and prosperity from coming to Mizoram and therefore is not in the interest of Mizoram. I may sound a note of warning to those who either out of mischief or for imaginary political gains indulges in rumour mongering and false propaganda. It is the duty of all right thinking people to ensure the safety of their non-Mizo brethrens. People belonging to Christian faith having true faith in God will not allow such rancour to prevail."

"We all came overground. Laldenga became the chief minister of Mizoram. He died in 1990. I then became the MNF president and have remained in the post for the last 28 years."

"Fifty per cent Kashmiri Pandits fled on January 19. It did not happen suddenly. Farooq Abdullah knows all. He has to answer. Farooq Abdullah ran away to London while the Valley was burning. He was the founder member of Alfata, JKLF. While he was in chair, youth were freely transported to Pakistan through the LoC. How was it possible without his knowing? Why were terrorists being released from jail then? Why did he resign overnight and the next day the exodus happened? It was all planned because then all would have come to his head. So he resigned. But could the exodus have happened without a plot behind it."

"Going to China and getting arms training turned out to be difficult. We sent two batches of MNF boys – about 150 boys in total – to China through Kachin (Myanmar) for training. But the journey itself, from Chittagong to China, was strenuous. It took about three months, one way."

"While in Pakistan, between 1972 and 1975, we held a number of secret talks with R&AW; officials. We came back to Delhi in 1976. Then the formal peace talks began, which concluded in 1986 when the Mizo Accord was signed."

"Earlier in 1970, I accompanied party president Laldenga to China. It was a secret mission from Dhaka to Beijing. We first reached Canton (Guangzhou) before landing in Beijing. We then visited Shanghai before returning to Dhaka. During our stay in China, we had a talk with the then Chinese premier Zhou Enlai and other important functionaries. Mr Zhou Enlai asked me: ‘You look very young, how old are you?’ I said I was 26 sir. He laughed and said, ‘You are younger to me by almost 50 years.’"

"Puducherry chief minister V Narayanasamy said that the appointment of Priyanka Gandhi as general secretary of All India Congress Committee (AICC) has instilled fear among BJP leaders. "BJP is destabilising communal harmony and AIADMK is remaining a puppet in its hands. No one can stop Stalin from becoming chief minister of Tamil Nadu and Rahul Gandhi from becoming prime minister of India," he said."

"DK president K Veeramani appreciated VCK for choosing Sanatana as the topic of the convention. "This convention is not aimed at the election but to change the next generation. Sanatan says not everything for everyone but the democracy says everything is for everyone. It is a clarion call to tell everyone that Sanatan will have no place in the country," he said."

"They (the BJP) think that the people of Tamil Nadu will vote for them if they quote Thirukkural, celebrate Pongal and construct a temple in Ayodhya. They haven't understood us. This is Periyar's land, Anna's land and Kalaignar's land."

"SDPI leader Nellai Mubarak requested to include the Prophet Muhamed in the syllabus. I’m happy to say that it has already been included in the Tamil Nadu Education Syllabus."

"DMK has never stood against or will ever stand against anybody's religious sentiments or devotion. Both spiritual and rationalist campaigns can co-exist here."

"If Muslims face trouble, the first political outfit that comes to your support is the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam."

"Alleging that BJP was enforcing Sanatan Dharma that rejects equality, freedom and brotherhood in the country, VCK had named the convention "Save Nation" from the hands of RSS and BJP. DMK president M K Stalin said the meeting had turned out to be an event to oppose Sanatan. "The Sanatan forces came to power. There is no threat from Pakistan and China but from the rulers of the country. The second war of independence is the election in May this year," he said. "If we are called anti-national for opposing BJP, we wholeheartedly accept the title," said Stalin calling for defeating Modi at the Centre and chief minister Edappadi K Palaniswami in the state."

"VCK chief Thol Thirumavalavan alleged that Sanatan forces had attempted to stop the conference. "I am happy to say that it is the first meeting of the election alliance of DMK. Sanatan Sanstha was inactive during Congress rule but it has grown under Modi rule. BJP is the political face of RSS which killed Mahatma Gandhi for insisting on Hindu-Muslim harmony. If it comes to power again, no one can save the country," he said."

"Thiruma only said this alliance must continue for long, BJP should be defeated and Sanatana Dharma should be destroyed..for that Congress must survive."

"Jahangir, after he came to the throne in 1605 A.D built Daulat Bagh, and put up palaces in it, which have disappeared. In 1615 A.D., he had the Visla, which he called Bil Tal, repaired. He is said to have built a palace on the Visla Lake. The same year he broke the temple of Varahji at Pushkar, and built a residence for himself on the Lake which still stands, though in ruins, behind the Jodhpur Ghat."

"Colonel Tod supposed that the building was a Jain temple which was converted into a mosque by the early Mussalman invaders, while General Cunningham supposed that it was built in two and-a-half days, as its name implies, of the spoils of Hindu temples demolished by the bigotry of the conquerors."

"The courtyard between Buland Darwaza and the inner courtyard covers underneath it, cellars of old Hindu temples of which many rooms remain intact. In fact, the whole of the Dargah appears to have been built, as was usual in the times of the early Mussalman rulers, on the ruins of old Hindu temples, partly by converting and partly by adding to the structures already existing."

"Sultan Alla-ud-din Khilji burnt the famous library at Anhalwara Patan. The Tarikh Firoz Shahi says that Firoz Shah Tughlak burnt a large library of Sanskrit books at Kohana."

"During his short stay, the Sultan, “ destroyed the pillars and foundations of the idol temples.” Visaldeva's College ’was destroyed, a portion of it converted into a mosque, to which Shamsuddin Altarnash (1211-1236 A.D.) added the present screen of seven arches."

"The critics who resolutely deny the existence of the art in Ancient India on the plea that none of the productions of the art are to be found, will do well to consider the fact that even the Vedas would have been lost had the Mohamedan rule continued a century or so longer without giving birth to a Dayanand. When such has been the lot of their most adored possession, what better ‘handling could the poor Art of History have aspired to obtain ?"

"In the first chapter (Fargard) of the part which bears the name Vendidad of their sacred book (which is also their most ancient book), Hurrnuzd or God tells Zapetman (Zoroaster): “I have given to man an excellent and fertile country. Nobody is able to give such a one. This land lies to the east (of Persia), where the stars rise every evening.” “When Jamshed (the leader of the emigrating nation), came from the highland in the east to the plain, there were neither domestic animals nor wild, nor men.” “The country alluded to above from which the Persians are said to have come can be no other than the North-west part of ancient India—Afghanistan and Kashmir—being to the east of Persia, as well as highland compared to the Persian plains.”‘"

"Among the earliest Indic scholars was Har Bilas Sarda, whose book Hindu Superiority, which was published in 1906, apart from being relevant to his times, was way ahead of its time when seen through a decolonial lens. Throughout the book, Sarda uses the term ‘Hindu civilisation’ while referring to ‘ancient India’. In his discussion on the defining feature of the Hindu/Indic civilisation, Sarda underscores the integral and indispensable role of nature in the schema of ‘ancient Indians’, which formed the basis of Hindu laws and institutions. This brings out two significant aspects: (a) that the native identity of Bharat being the Indic/Hindu identity never appeared to be a matter of contestation in Sarda’s discussion, and (b) that a harmonious relationship with nature defines the Hindu/Indic consciousness, from which emanate its worldview and institutions."

"“What would happen if the population decreased drastically and there was a war with some country? Messing with nature is not wise, it will only cause harm. Who can stop what Allah wants to create? He will be born. Whether poor or rich, everyone gets food by the mercy of Allah. There will be no benefit from the population law.” added Barq."

"When India was under British rule, our country fought for freedom. Now Taliban wants to free their country & run it. Taliban is a force that did not allow even strong countries like Russia & America to settle in their country."