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Vital role for middle class in politics: Shashi Tharoor

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PALAKKAD: Shashi Tharoor, former Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, has called upon the middle class to actively involve themselves in the political mainstream.

Delivering the keynote address at the National Youth Day Celebrations organised by the Vivekananda Darshanika Samajam here on Sunday, he said that “the highly competitive society where the salaried middle-class rarely enjoyed the luxury of being able to take the kind of risks that a political life implied had left out of Indian politics the very group of people who are the mainstay of politics in other democracies.

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