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...latest in a long line of ministers of every political hue to stand accused. The allegations against him pale in comparison with the disclosures of 2001, when journalists from Tehelka.com, an Internet news service, posed as arms dealers and recorded themselves paying bribes to the then BJP president, Bangaru Laxman, and Jaya Jaitley, friend of Defense Minister George Fernandes. Fernandes resigned but returned to office months later...
...Losers PIN CHAKKAPHAK U.K. court approves Thai financier's extradition. That whole Asian financial crisis? His fault BANGARU LAXMAN Still time for med school. Prez of India's ruling party caught on camera accepting bribes MIR Russian space station crashing below the 2000 level?no, wait, that's the NASDAQ Verbatim...
...Bangaru Laxman, president of the ruling Baharatiya Janata Party, was implicated in a bribery scandal that has exposed rampant graft in India's corridors of power, and was forced to resign. That Laxman's name in the headlines symbolized the depth of the rot in Indian politics, where although bribery has become a way of life, national security had been assumed to be above the dictates of greed - an assumption trashed by the scandal that revealed an extensive web of corruption in weapons procurement...
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