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Caught on TV: BJP’s Sambit Patra accuses Shiv Sena’s Sanjay Gupta of hiding a snake under his shawl

On a recent television debate, Patra even asked the cameraman to remove Gupta’s shawl to ‘expose the snake’.

Scroll Staff
Jan 16, 2020 · 11:03 am
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