It is the BJP's duty to criticise and oppose me. I have no problem with that.
Everything Neymar does turns into news. If he gets emotional, they criticise. If he colours his hair, they criticise.
Although BJP and Congress are two sides of same coin, BJP is far more communal. Since BJP came to power, there is an atmosphere of hatred, and there is a takeover of the democratic institutions.
I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.
To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.
Just because I have joined the BJP does not mean that I am an active BJP member.
How can BJP be anti-Bangla when BJP founder Syama Prasad Mookerjee himself was a Bengali?
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is always the deterioration of culture.
I have an ideological umbilical cord with the BJP... we are three-generation party supporters... my grandfather was a swayamsevak, my mother, a BJP booth activist.
In Korea, if a player doesn't play well, you would never criticise him, but in European countries fans criticise their own teams; sometimes they boo them off the pitch.
BJP are opposed to a Muslim boy marrying a Hindu girl. Then how did BJP have an alliance with Mehbooba Mufti or Nitish Kumar or Chandrababu Naidu?
Personally, I hope that we British continue to criticise America - just as I hope Americans will criticise us. That is what friends do.
I was a booth worker of the BJP. I rose to become the party president.
When people speak of BJP being an 'election machine,' it is actually development and progress that is BJP's electoral machine.
Compared to Congress, BJP is spending huge money in the elections. BJP keeps claiming that it is not corrupt. Then where is it getting such huge monies from?
BJP is a political party with a difference that aims at good governance. This is proved by the fact that three of the five Chief Ministers according to a recent NDTV survey/poll are from BJP-ruled states.