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Ep 163: Who Broke Our Republic?

The Seen and the Unseen - hosted by Amit Varma

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The Remains of the Congress Party

Congress was a dynastic force before Murthy Lal Nehru was a Congress president he orchestrated Nehru's rise within the party. Once mrs Gandhi died Rajiv Gandhi was installed in office and had no convictions at all. He presided over the total dissolution of the secular state bequeathed by his grandfather. The Hindu nationalists are now more freely able to say that this is not the party that one is the Indian independence, says Ravi Agrawal. If the congress party had remained morally untainted i don't think the bjp could have made such a forceful breakthrough as it did in the 80s and 90s said Agrawal.

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