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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, center, and Congress party president Sonia Gandhi, background left, look on during the swearing in ceremony of ministers in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011
Friday, Mar. 18, 2011

Open quoteThis is a hammer blow that it cannot recover from. It has lost all moral responsibility to govern.Close quote

  • SUSHMA SWARAJ,
  • a leader of the Bharatiya Janata party, after it was revealed that the Indian government allegedly paid parliamentarians a fund of between 500m and 600m rupees before a 2008 vote to obtain support. The U.S. diplomatic cable was obtained by WikiLeaks
Photo: AP Photo/Manish Swarup | Source: The Guardian