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Vilasrao Deshmukh
Dec 1 2008, Vincent Van Ross

As the political fallout of the Mumbai terror attacks began, the Home Minister Shivraj Patil had to go. He seems to have exhausted all the nine lives of the proverbial cat.

An agitated Congress president Sonia Gandhi declared: “One thing we do...

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