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Even as the government was mulling the issue, a man whom the NDA government would not normally have tapped for the job, offered himself for it.
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The truth is, since the pesticide controversy hit the newspapers, Sharad Pawar, who entered politics in 1958, was chief minister of Maharashtra three times and was a moving force in getting the affluent sugar industry in Maharashtra to band itself into cooperatives, had been a deeply worried man.
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The night the JPC was announced, some friends and he got together to meet on the implications of the controversy not just on India
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First Published: Nov 03 2003 | 12:00 AM IST