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As the BJP heads for a likely third successive term in power, it's fascinating to debate how true it looks to the original proposition: a party with a difference.
Boring that the writer is himself sucking upto the congress for years and pointing fingers at others…55 years what was so shining in India under congress that no one in India can’t even criticize it…sad these people call themselves intellectuals..sucking up to the Gandhi was theirs hobby…And a IFS officer also has freedom of speech as the writer has the same sucking upto..hypocrite
Boring that the writer is himself sucking upto the congress for years and pointing fingers at others…55 years what was so shining in India under congress that no one in India can’t even criticize it…sad these people call themselves intellectuals..sucking up to the Gandhi was theirs hobby…And a IFS officer also has freedom of speech as the writer has the same sucking upto..hypocrite
Anything will be better than Indira’s brain-dead socialism.
Out of business political pimp on hit job (Remember Radia tapes?)