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"I don't think anyone in centre took a decision, I was the internal security minister and I also learned to rent on the UNI message and the home ministry records will show that nobody knew anything about it, the fact is that there was a lot of groundswells. There was a don, Shah Bano issue, there was tremendous commotion all over and Rajiv Gandhi took one position then he reversed the position and that's the subject on which CCPA met several times, I was the Internal Security Minister and I raised absolute hell on that because security was my responsibility and I told them if these demonstrations go like this, I can't fire on my own people, you know if you have crowds of one leg two tow legs coming out either side every day somewhere down the line, somebody going to open fire..." shah+bano
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