ON April 23, Rameshwar Thakur, minister of state for rural development, could not contain himself while announcing that all states had passed legislation on panchayat raj that brought them in line with the 73rd Constitution Amendment Act, 1992. "A new chapter", he claimed, "has been written" in the political history of the country.
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