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The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes.

— Arundhati Roy

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My first meeting as a senator, my first day, they were already talking about the next election. Part of that's the permanent campaign, part of that's a word I've been using more frequently, 'tribal.' Our politics has become tribal: It's us versus them.

— Evan Bayh

Politics is activity in relation to power.

— Francis Parker Yockey

The Congress is a power-oriented party.

— Sharad Pawar

Politics means striving to share power or striving to influence the distribution of power, either among states or among groups within a state.

— Max Weber

I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.

— John Ensign

Voting is the foundational act that breathes life into the principle of the consent of the governed.

— DeForest Soaries

Congress becomes the public voice of opposition.

— Robert Dallek

Federalism is no longer the fault line of Centre-State relations but the definition of a new partnership of Team India. Citizens now have the ease of trust, not the burden of proof and process. Businesses find an environment that is open and easy to work in.

— Narendra Modi

To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.

— Charles Kennedy

✗Opposing Perspectives

Politics is a highly tribal business.

— Nick Clegg