...I do not blame the Muslims of this country who for four decades have been victims of a campaign of disinformation against the BJP and Jan Sangh, by political adversaries... The charge that some people were hurling against the BJP (that it wanted annihilation or assimilation of Muslim) (are) the same... that Muslim League did against the Congress before partition...

...Unfortunately, in India it is nothing objectionable if people talk as Muslims, Christians, etc. Only talking as Hindus is a taboo. This is strange...

I object... to the talk of Hindu interest. It is not Hindu interest... but national interest but no national interest, can be different from Hindu interest...

...At no stage have (I) said that the Masjid should be demolished. Sentiments of Hindus are related to the plot; of the Muslims, to the structure. (This is an erroneous view - Editor). If all parties can agree to relocate the structure and construction of the temple at the spot the problem can be solved...

(Source: The Hindustan Times, New Delhi 16 January, 1991)

People with broken hearts can hardly do anything for the country's progress."

- Chandra Shekhar, P.M.

"Secularism has come to mean a premium on belonging to a minority and, sometimes, in the case of some perverse politicians, a euphemism for Hindu-baiting."

- L.K. Advani, BJP Leader