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Vote Bank Politics
Aug 26 2009, Amitej Nagar

India is believed to move on the road of development but I don’t think so. Reservation in the society has tempered the youth’s will to study and aim.

Reservation on the basis of caste is meaningless but it accounts for a considerable vote bank....

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