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| The socialist leader and slayer of Indira Gandhi in Rae Bareli in 1977 was never short on theatrics. He made a virtue of his buffoonery but he was also an ambitious politician which he showed when he quit the Union cabinet on the issue of dual loyalty of the Jan Sangh members of the Janata Party. In 1984, India Today quoted Raj Narain as saying, "I know howto topple people from chairs." | ||||
