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Food security bill stalled in Parl, Pawar plays mediator
May 07, 2013
NDTV reports: As the government tried to push through the food security bill
and the Opposition refused to vote on it until the two ministers smeared
by scandal -- Ashwani Kumar and Pawan Bansal -- are sacked.
Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar, chief of key UPA ally -- the
Nationalist Congress Party -- has taken up the mantle of mediator.
Once opposed to the food bill himself, Pawar has reportedly reached
out to the Left and the BJP and is trying to work out a compromise and
get the bill through.
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