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Political callousness
May 6 2009, Vishwani Dev

Elections 2009 is a real mockery of Indian Democracy. National level parties started a new regime of advertisement campaigns. BJP and Congress coming up with branded products and brand ambassadors like L.K Advani, Narendra Modi, Sonia Gandhi, Rahul...

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