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Sonia
Sep 15 2009, Sreeja

Congress president Sonia Gandhi and its young and dynamic general secretary Rahul Gandhi are really leading from the front in the austerity drive launched by the grand old party.

While Sonia Gandhi travelled economy class on a flight from New...

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