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Swamy's poser to Advani

Boston June 26. " The Union Home Minister, L.K. Advani, who has criticised Congresspersons for their silence during the Emergency, should have equally condemned those today in his party and in the RSS who wrote `apology letters' to Indira Gandhi and came out of jail on parole swearing by the 20-point programme," the Janata Party president, Subramanian Swamy, said here. "The list included Mr. Advani's colleague and Prime Minister, A.B. Vajpayee. Nothing had raised the morale of Indira Gandhi to continue with the Emergency as the steady trickle of surrendering stalwarts of Mr. Advani's party of today. It was only after I made an appearance on the floor of Parliament despite a MISA warrant and then escaped abroad that Indira Gandhi's resolve to make the Emergency permanent was shattered. She and C.M. Stephen told me so in 1982. Those living in glasshouses should not throw stones."

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Swamy's poser to Advani