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V.C. Shukla says "On 12th June when this news of Allahabad High Court judgement came, our worst suspicions about the conspiracy that was hedged to destabilise the Congress government and centre were proved right. We all thought that this was not a judicial pronouncement but it was part of a conspiracy that this kind of thing happened. This may be true or this may be wrong but this is what we all thought at that time and immediately hearing the news of the judgement we all congregated at Mrs. Gandhi's residence at 1, Safdarjung Road and there she was also very annoyed but she wasn't speaking on the whole thing." Vidya Charan Shukla was a noted Indian politician and Minister from the Indian National Congress party. His political career spanned of almost six decades. He was a close associate