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- ↑ Members of Fourteenth Lok Sabha - Parliament of India website Archived 15 June 2006 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Aniruddha Bahal. "Operation Duryodhana". Archived from the original on 23 April 2012. Contains detailed description of the interaction with each MP.
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