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The World : Furor in India Parliament

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India’s Parliament adjourned in an uproar after an hour of shouting and arguments over a newspaper report alleging that a powerful aide to Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was a possible suspect in the 1984 assassination of his mother, Indira Gandhi. The Indian Express quoted what it said were secret documents from a judicial panel saying that Indira Gandhi’s longtime personal secretary, R. K. Dhawan, had suddenly changed her schedule Oct. 31, 1984, the day of the slaying, and was responsible for deploying the two Sikh bodyguards who killed her. Dhawan was fired by Rajiv Gandhi when he came to power but was returned to the inner circle last month.

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