Naveen Patnaik Quotes

We want Congress to join the Samajwadi Party (SP) and Bahujan Samajwadi Party (BSP) alliance.

The Congress and regional parties may fight against each other in certain states, but they will get united at the national level against BJP for forming the coalition government.

In Bengal, at the state level, the Congress and Left are working with the BJP. At the national level, for the greater good, we feel we must work together in Parliament.

Why should you construe that Congress and BJP are the only forces at the Centre? There could be third or fourth force.

My party will not be with any BJP or Congress-led government.

Rajiv Gandhi could have certainly attempted to form a Congress-led coalition government in 1990.

And under our system, much like you see in the U.K., of course, a party working with another party can form a coalition and govern the country.

What I hope is in five years' time, I can go to the British people in the election and say: Lots of you doubted that coalition politics worked, but it has worked.

The parliamentary regime is a regime of parties

It is not healthy to have a country governed by just one political party. There should be other political families taking part in government.

The reputation of a man as a member of a party may not be homogeneous with his character in his personal relations. We have in our mind instances of persons who have been for years hard workers for the cause, whose party-character is unimpeachable, but who are nevertheless sometimes difficult to get on with in private life. And, conversely, we know some whom we would personally trust to the uttermost, but politically as far as we could see them and no farther. The former, we believe, can often, and the latter seldom, be used in the interests of the party.

England does not love coalitions.

All of us know that any substantial block of votes can cause trouble in the French legislature because practically any French government has to have the votes of many groups to have a majority.

Me and Nitish finished off the BJP in Bihar, and now it is the turn to do so in UP.

The BJP is not a party dependent on a single individual, nor is it tied to the apron strings of a family.

The BJP is only a front organisation. It is not a political party.

The regional parties have emerged as a strong force, and they, too, deserve a place in national politics.

AAP will never support BJP, but it's determined to support Congress only if they will agree to give Delhi the full-state status.

I appeal to all political parties to come together for a Modi Mukt Bharat.

The CPI need not worry about the BJP, which is working for people's betterment, or its coalition. Let the CPI realise that it is part of a very weak coalition.

The reason a Congress-led coalition didn't happen in 1990 was because it is entirely possible that Rajiv Gandhi himself wasn't sure how the Congress party would evolve in that context.

The other political parties are either in alliances or are formed with the collaborations of one or two different parties, but the Congress is different.

I would love to work with the SDP, the Workers' Party and with all the other small parties.

Akhilesh Yadav played a clever game by joining hands with BSP so that he can save his skin and use Dalit votes to win a few seats.

The Socialists did not want to work with us, so we created an alliance with the FPO, and we are making good policies of reform for our country.