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Modi Appoints a Bribe-free Minister

Modi Appoints a Bribe-free Minister

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Nov 10, 2014
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Suresh Prabhu, India’s new railways minister, is most famous for losing his job in 2002 as power minister in the last Bharatiya Janata Party-led coalition government because he was not collecting bribes for his Maharashtra-based Shiv Sena party. His party boss, the late Bal Thackeray, insisted that he be replaced by a more pliant minister and Atal Bihar…

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