“If this is an attempt by voters to blackmail the government, to compromise on important issues or principles, then we must show them we cannot be blackmailed. No government should succumb to blackmail.”

—  Sinnathamby Rajaratnam

24 December 1984, in the aftermath of an election in which the Opposition got 2 seats

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