Chandra Shekhar: Being

Chandra Shekhar was Indian politician. Explore interesting quotes on being.

Chandra Shekhar: 32 quotes 0 likes

“Immorality and opportunism holds sway in public life. Unprincipled alliances are being forged going against the verdict of the people. This alliance is not going to last long.”

Chandra Shekhar

Jyoti Basu in: Sanjoy Hazarika Rival of Singh Becomes India Premier http://www.nytimes.com/1990/11/10/world/rival-of-singh-becomes-india-premier.html?scp=17&sq=%22v%20p%20singh%22&st=cse, The New York Times, 10 November 1990
On his appointment as Prime Minister after he toppled Singh engineering defections defections.

Life , People

“I am a Hindu... I am proud of being a Hindu... and because of tolerance to all other religions, I consider Hinduism superior.”

Chandra Shekhar

(in a interview with him in Hindustan Times, 19/11/1990). Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1991). Ayodhya and after: Issues before Hindu society.

Religion

“I am 10 per cent politician and 90 per cent human being.”

Chandra Shekhar

Source: As quoted in " I am 10% politician and 90% human being: Chandra Shekhar https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/indiascope/voices/story/19800915-i-am-10percent-politician-and-90percent-human-being-chandra-shekhar-821445-2014-01-13", India Today (September 1980)