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Somnath Chatterjee
Oct 10 2008, Jayanta Bhattacharya

The Times of India Delhi edition on Thursday, October 9, 2008 published an article on Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Somnath Chatterjee’s refusal to visit Britain because the British government couldn’t give him a security clearance at the airport where he...

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