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Raghuniram Shastri remembers Jagdev Prasad

The predictions of Jagdev Prasad, Bihar’s Lenin, have come true to an extent. He had said, “The first generation will be killed, the second generation will go to jail and third generation will rule.” Raghuniram Shastri, national president of Shoshit Samaj Dal, which Prasad founded, talks to Nawal Kishore Kumar

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Nawal Kishore Kumar

Nawal Kishore Kumar is Editor (Hindi), Forward Press

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