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Ram Vilas Paswan: socialist icon, consummate politician

In 1969, a tall and lanky Dalit political activist in his 20s entered the Bihar legislature as a legislator for the Samyukta Socialist Party. It was a time of political upheaval. Congressional hegemony had been eroded, for the first time, in the 1967 state elections, and alternative governing coalitions, generally …

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