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This is an archive article published on January 17, 1999

`I’m a soldier with no weapons’

Shivendra Singh (Rural Development): I have not seen a single dept file ever since I took oath. Yashwant Singh (Technical Education): I'...

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  • Shivendra Singh (Rural Development): I have not seen a single dept file ever since I took oath.
  • Yashwant Singh (Technical Education): I’m a soldier with no weapons…I have done nothing since becoming the minister.
  • Amar Mani Tripathi (Fisheries and Animal Husbandry): If we are united, we will get our rights back.
  • Vikramajet Maurya (Excise): I’m a minister with a portfolio in which no one listens to me. I have not seen any file and never have been consulted.
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