“Current Lok Sabha has had fewest working hours since 1985. The time has indeed come for ‘no work, no pay’ for MPs if minimum business is not transacted”

Varun Gandhi via Twitter.

“You have a mobile phone and you don’t have a toilet. When you have a toilet, you don’t use the toilet… (but) use it as a godown.”

Rural development minister Jairam Ramesh describing India as the dirtiest and filthiest country in the world.

Election Commission has not been successful in stemming the flow of money, and why we can’t expect them to do that is for the simple reason that there is so enormous an amount of black money generated for elections which is always used.”

Chief Election Commissioner JM Lyngdoh.

“Only those high security prisoners who have projected good conduct will be allowed to participate in the Tihar Olympics.”

Sunil Gupta, spokesperson and law officer, Tihar Prisons.