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Dec 2024
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'How do you know if you’re a dynast? You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three. Or in the Gandhi Family, you have the family WhatsApp group consisting of the matriarch and the two siblings. And this WhatsApp group is being used to find new and innovative ways to bring down and denigrate the Great Indian Parliamentary Democracy. The latest target of the dynastic brigade is the Winter Session of Parliament. How to derail democracy is a lesson taught in the Nehru Dynasty School of Politics', says BJP leader & Lawyer Meenakashi Lekhi:

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