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Praise

"The more praise a man is willing to take, the less he deserves it."

- Mckenzie.

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George Fernandes

George Fernandes (born June 3, 1930) is an Indian politician. He was born at Mangalore in what is now the state of Karnataka, but his power base is now mainly Bihar.

In the fourth parliamentary elections in 1967,he defeated S.K.Patil,who was known as 'Uncrowned king of Mumbai' in his own constituency in Mumbai.Thereafter he rose to the level of a key opposition leader in parliament.He came to prominence in the 1970s, first as a railway union leader during the paralysing railway strike of 1974, and afterwards as an opponent of Indira Gandhi's imposition of Emergency, which caused his imprisonment. He opposed the imposition of emergency tooth and nail.In the Janata Party government that came into power in 1977, he became industries minister and forced several multinational corporations out of the country, notably Coca Cola and IBM. He is blamed by many for the fall of the Morarji Desai government by switching sides at the last moment to Charan Singh.

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