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Who's Munnaji?

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Business Standard New Delhi

Right through the ruckus caused by the Opposition during Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee’s Budget speech, Mukherjee kept appealing to individual MPs. BJP leader Murli Manohar Joshi, for instance, sat down after Mukherjee appealed to him. The same didn’t apply to “Munnaji” despite the minister requesting him to sit down on several occasions. Turns out Mukherjee was referring to BJP leader Gopinath Munde — even if he knew Mukherjee was talking to him, it’s not clear if Munde would have obliged.

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First Published: Mar 01 2010 | 12:22 AM IST

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