C. Rajagopalachari Quotes

What is wanted to save parliamentary democracy is an opposition that will operate not privately and behind the closed doors of the party meeting, but openly and periodically through the electorate.

C. Rajagopalachari

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• What is wanted to save parliamentary democracy is an opposition that will operate not privately and behind the closed doors of the party meeting, but openly and periodically through the electorate.

  

  C. Rajagopalachari
  • Democracy
  • Opposition
  • Electorate