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Hegde, as a Brahmin was not prepared to see a dark-skinned farmer of a low caste become the Prime Minister of India

— H. D. Deve Gowda

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His retort to Hegde’s remark that he was not fit to become Prime Minister and that he did not know the Map of India.

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