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Rajya Sabha
Mar 4 2008, PHILEM

It is a shame that Indians boast of having the largest democracy in the world while their Speaker of the Lok Sabha and Chairman of the Rajya Sabha are helpless to reign in the lawmakers who hit the newspaper headlines for disrupting the Parliament.

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