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INDIAs Ramlila Maidan rally highlighted irony of 2024 election opposition parties having to counter graft charges after 10 years out of power..
BJP has benefitted from using Central agencies and from oppositions inability to punch holes in PM Modis titanium cast...
Modi government had itself told Supreme Court in 2014, and in a 2015 RTI reply that regaining the island would lead to war, and that there was no ceding of Indian territory to Sri Lanka..
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