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The Tribune · India · Modi becomes India's longest continuously serving elected prime minister
Carries the Congress rebuttal in full: Jairam Ramesh contrasts Nehru's nation-building (states' integration, the Constitution, zamindari abolition, SC/ST reservations) with what he calls a manufactured statistical milestone.
“He may have passed a self-proclaimed and dubiously invented milestone today but he is a millstone around India's neck, presiding over the Murder of Democracy in India. — Jairam Ramesh”