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"I never shy away from a challenge"
"I knew it was going to be tough... But politics is about doing tough things. And about making tough changes."
"You understand what it means not to have a democracy, not being able to vote. The frustration of people saying we want justice or we want food, we want to have a future"
"I never regretted once since 2015 entering politics, because it’s about building our collective future"
"I will challenge Francois Legault on the economy. The economy will be the ballot box question. I challenge him to repeat that labour shortages are good news. I challenge him to see parents whose kids don’t have teachers and won’t have any for the next few weeks. I challenge him to visit entrepreneurs who are being forced to close their businesses because they don’t have enough staff."
"I am thinking of the cost of living; we have families who can’t make ends meet and have to decide whether to pay rent or buy food…"
"People are extremely frustrated, not only the anglophones, people in general. People are feeling we need to unite ourselves; we need to stop dividing ourselves, because what’s ahead of us is going to be a tough period in terms of the economy."
"She’s a young leader, with experience, and she represents a new way of doing politics, in a new generation of politicians... What I love about Dominique is that she is very grounded — she’s able to bring together the daily realities of people and the big picture challenges of the province"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.