"Awami League has kept Islam as the state religion to get Muslim votes. On the other hand, to display their secularism to foreigners, they call the state secular. They use this pretentious technique to confuse the public."
TARIQUL ISLAM
Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) spokesperson and standing committee member
criticising Awami League's secular politics.
"MKA Alamgir is a disaster and a curse for this government. He has opened up all the ways for the failure of this government."
GOYESHWAR CHANDRA ROY
BNP standing committee member
criticising home minister Muhiuddin Khan Alamgir's comment regarding Bishwajit Das's murder.
" What can we do? We are grassroot-level people, we are the representatives of the people. And the common man is always backdated (outdated). I am proud to say we are with the people."
MAMATA BANERJEE
Trinamool Congress chief and chief minister of Paschimbanga India
in reply to Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's comment about opposition saying they were “constrained by outdated ideologies”.
"Now the agencies failed. Both here and Pakistan. So, we have failed. Why? Because, there was no interaction between Pakistan and India."
REHMAN MALIK
Pakistani Interior Minister
blaming lack of interaction between Pakistan and India to be the main reason behind the failure of preventing the Mumbai terrorist attack of 26/11.
