| | Walter Hauser's Review of Shankarshan Thakur's Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | Indeed, as Thakur makes clear, it was Laloo Yadav's unqualified support for V. Singh in 1989 that was critical in the political ascent of the Raja of Manda to the prime ministership, and to Laloo's rise to the gaddi in Bihar and ultimately the presidency of the Janata Dal. |
 | | Though Laloo was hardly the first to give voice to the oppressed, Thakur gives him full and legitimate credit for representing the poor and the powerless in a populist message of self-respect and political assertion. |
 | | The cynical twist in the story is that maintaining Laloo Yadav in power became the only goal, inevitably to the detriment not only of his backward classes and Muslim vote bank, but for the 100 million citizen of India who are Biharis. |
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