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Such is its disdain for Somnath Chatterjee that the Left has started cracking jokes about him. What will the Speaker...

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Such is its disdain for Somnath Chatterjee that the Left has started cracking jokes about him. What will the Speaker do if he resigns? The Congress will send him to the US as India’s envoy, they smirk. Like Siddhartha Shankar Ray, says a Forward Bloc leader, “only Bengalis become US ambassadors nowadays”.

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