2014 Quotes

“leader”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“younger, with a cutting wit and a sharply sardonic”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“Rahul. ‘He is our leader,’ was the cryptic response. Truth”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“that many Opposition-ruled states had already initiated”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“political instincts, and her instincts told her that food security”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“first BJP chief minister of Gujarat at a function in Gandhinagar. Again, Modi wasn’t the focus, but already the whispers in party circles projected him as the ‘super-chief minister’. The sweet smell of success, though, would quickly evaporate. The Sangh Parivar in Gujarat”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“Privately, Congress leaders whispered that maybe Rahul didn’t want to sit in the front row of the Lok Sabha where he would be caught out if he dozed off!”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“If in 2009, we gave sixty paise to the Congress and forty paise to the BJP, this time, it’s eighty paise to the BJP and twenty to the Congress.”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“If we’d got the economy on the right track, nothing else would have mattered in 2014. It wasn’t corruption or scams, it was the economy which destroyed us in the general elections.”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“countered. Rahul, though, clearly seemed to lead two lives. In the day he would engage with thinkers and activists, but at night he seemed to draw comfort from being in the company of family friends from the glamorous Page Three set. Perhaps the India–Bharat divide was most in evidence in his own personality,”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“The sometimes noble, sometimes ignoble, “structure of renown” erected by Motilal Nehru and his descendants is now merely a heap of rubble.”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“Narendra Modi versus Rahul Gandhi—the pracharak versus the prince, the ‘outsider’ versus the ‘insider’, the meritocrat versus the dynast, the small-town tea boy versus the child of elite privilege.”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“In Pakistan, when we want to change the government, we bring in the army; in India, you just use the ballot box.”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India

“If someone tries to break the queue—as actor-MP Chiranjeevi tried to in Hyderabad this time—you can find your voice and ask them to get back in line.”
― Rajdeep Sardesai, 2014: The Election That Changed India