The tsunami of idiocy has swept the Indian mainland! 2013's quotes by our politicians are even worse than last year's insipid remarks. Leading the pack is Mamata Banerjee who asked her statesmen to smoke a little more after she introduced additional tax on cigarettes to help raise funds for those who had lost their life's savings in the Saradha chit fund. Here are other netas who made statements that resulted in a huge loss of face...
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Swami Agnivesh - If Swami Agnivesh is to be believed, then vegetarianism can bring down incidents of crime against violence. "We cannot stop a crime like rape by policing only.... I think rapes will come down significanlty if people stop eating non-vegetarian food. Rapes will come down significantly if alcohol consumption is not there," he said.
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Raj Thackeray - The MNS chief's obsession with Biharis has taken a new low this time round. Talking about the Delhi gangrape incident, Raj said, "No one is talking about the fact that all rapists are from Bihar".
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Narendra Modi- The Gujarat Chief Minister moved a step further and provided a solution to the problem of global warming. He said and we quote him, "Solutions to so many global problems such as global warming lie in the path shown by our saints, through our spirituality"! He went further and said that "as soon as the world realises the message of our saints and spiritual leaders, it will find solutions to all crises".
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Nanki Ram Kanwar- To bask in the glory of their two minutes of fame, our netas these days utter anything to make news. Another example of the same is Chhatisgarh Home Minister Nanki Ram Kanwar, whose comments on the increasing number of rapes in the country left us open-mouthed! He enlightened everyone by saying, "As the year 2012 was leaving, inauspicious phase emerged owing to the stars that seem to have led to the higher incidences of molestations and rape". In line with Modi's spirituality remarks, Kanwar adds "Our country is land of spiritual belief and philosophy. I also believe that just like the stars are responsible for the outcome of good or bad events, the incidents of rape too are consequences of the bad phase controlled by stars".