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<p>— ANI (@ANI) <a href="http://twitter.com/ANI/status/902213867895308288" rel="nofollow">August 28, 2017</a></p></blockquote>
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				<div class="comment-author"><div class="userimgbox brown"><span class="reviewer-name">R</span></div><div class="commenter-name">Rajesh Kumar</div></div><div class="datetime">Aug 29, 2017 at 6:00 am</div><div class="comment-content">This lady Sushma Swaraj has been reduced to an non-en y by Modi.
She is spending time granting visas to Pakis or to anybody around the world.
I thought she might send a ship with VK Singh to bring back the smiling sufferers .
If our students go abroad for graduate degree, they should not grumble.</div><div class="ratingbx" contentid="4818135" superrootid="2389771" pslideid="" commentlevel="1" attrid="2389771"><span class="sshare"><i id="up" class="thumbs-up rating-sprite"></i><span class="blog_vote_up">(0)</span></span><span class="sshare"><i id="down" class="thumbs-down rating-sprite"></i><span class="blog_vote_down">(0)</span></span><span class="smsg"></span></div><div class="reply comment_reply" contentid="4818135" superrootid="2389771" pslideid="" commentlevel="1" attrid="2389771"><i class="reply-icon rating-sprite"></i> Reply</div></article><ol class="reply_comment com_children" id="comment_2389771"></ol></li>
			
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