We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so. - Salman Khurshid

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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God. One cannot pray unless he has faith in his own ability to accost the infinite, merciful, eternal God.

Salman Khurshid

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

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If we send industrialists to jail, we would be discouraging investment.

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In democracy, every election is a learning process. You learn from every election, the one that you win and the one that you lose. And then you prepare for the next one.

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