"I will only do so...if there is no party interference. I must be free to chose my Minsters on the basis of merit and ability, rather than party membership."

“Why should I take your treatment? Do you treat the four hundred million of my countrymen free, as you have come to give me free treatment.”

“In this province...we have...refugees coming in a state of mental excitement which enables the careerist politician to get hold of them and utilize them for various types of propaganda against the government and the Congress.”

““My friend states that there has been no case of persecution or oppression in East Bengal. Will he kindly tell us whether it is not a fact that house searches had been made in Jessore, Dinapur, Pabna, Meharpur, Barisal……”

“Independence from the colonial rule will remain a dream until and unless the people of India are healthy and strong in mind and body.”

“Besides being a political stalwart...he was an all-rounder in a way. His contribution towards rebuilding modern India, his contribution in the making of West Bengal, can never be forgotten by anyone.”

““It is no use belittling the fact that people are coming from East Bengal to West Bengal because they find life in East Bengal intolerable.”