“Instead of understanding the crisis facing the country and helping the country, the opposition wants to weaken the country by its deeds.”

—  Rajiv Gandhi

In his address to the party workers on 12 November 1984 to spoil the machinations of terrorist, when he was elected to the post of the President of the Congress Party, Meena Agrawal in “Rajiv Gandhi”, P.74
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