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On The Record

English - February 18, 2020 08:53 - 19 minutes - 17.7 MB
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In the latest episode of On The Record, Hindustan Times’ Sunetra Choudhury speaks to ex-deputy chairman of the now-defunct Planning Commission, Montek Singh Ahluwalia. In his new book “Backstage: The Story behind India’s High Growth Years”, Ahluwalia reveals that after the Rahul Gandhi ordinance-trashing episode of 2013, the then prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh asked him whether he should resign.