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1. Easy one to start: "I was born in Mumbai in the illustrious Patel family. My Grandfather was the renowned lawyer-politician Barrister Rajni Patel who was the Congress Pradesh Committee President of Bombay”. Who am I?

2. Despite the fact that they were the first in Asia to begin with, today this Company is in a business which is very much dominated by another company whose head is a regular page-3 element. On the death of the then head of the family, soon his Colonel son succeeded, who introduced numerous new products that are brand leaders even today. However he died soon in 1973, and in between he also tried his luck in the election. Name him or the company.

3. He is not a very famous name today in the bollywood, though he can boost of impressive family affairs. His wife is CPM leader, won her MP’s election from X in year 1989 also her mother (his mother-in-law) is a war-time-heroine ( this will make question quite an easy affair) and she too tried her hand in an election which was against a very eminent personality. He belongs to a royal family and his son is now days quite famous in bollywood. Last clue is: he once tried his hand in the election and was very handsomely defeated. Identify him.
Connect A: Connect these three answers...

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4. Bollywood nexus with politics is not a recent affair, it is quite old. Infact the first instant of this ploy was in year 1962, when Nehru used Balraj Sahni to campaign against him. Sahni was asked to stay at this ‘Minority Concentrated District’ to defeat a sitting MP. Name this ‘Larger Than Life ‘ politician.

5. Only time anyone from the TATA’s trying their luck in election was in year 1971 and the man was respected Naval Tata, he stood against a famous politician. Name this Mangalore-born-West-End politician.

6. His name in a regional language will mean ‘second’, however he himself and later his son proved that they are not a second-grade-political-party in their part of the world. To add little bit of story, his son was never interested in politics, so much so that his political opponent used to mock his name as something not suitable to govern.
Connect B: Connect these three answers...
One can easy connect A and B also...


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7. Here goes a very bad question (what to do I am running out of ideas) , name the brand of sandal used by this lady. ( source: Indian express)

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9. Identify him ( my fav post independence leader). To add little bit of story: he once said, “my problem was, I didn’t able to understand Gandhi till he was alive”. Had he would have align with Gandhi (which would have given him enough political mileage, history of this nation would be quite different...


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