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What is wanted to save parliamentary democracy is an opposition that will operate not privately and behind the closed doors of the party meeting, but openly and periodically through the electorate.

— C. Rajagopalachari ‎Myron Weiner (1961)

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His advocacy of right-wing alternative to the Congress.

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