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- ↑ "Combined List of Members of Lok Sabha". Parliament of India. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
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- ↑ Jaya Krishna Baral (1989). Election politics and voting behaviour in India: a study of Orissa. Discovery Pub. House. pp. 44, 45. ISBN 978-81-7141-033-0.
- ↑ Robert N. Minor (1999). The Religious, the Spiritual, and the Secular: Auroville and Secular India. SUNY Press. p. 88. ISBN 978-0-7914-3992-0.
