The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order…

Arundhati Roy
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The Congress has historically played covert communal politics in order to create what in India we call vote banks where you pit one community against another and so on in order to secure votes. ✨ Arundhati Roy On the Indian Elections, Her Support for the Iraqi Resistance & the Privatization of War. Democracy Now! with Amy Goodman, www.commondreams.org. May 20, 2004.
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