Inside Parliament: Views from the Front Row

by Derek O'Brien

After six years as a member of Parliament and close to fifteen years in politics, I felt it was time to put down my thoughts and ideas, my political interventions and policy suggestions, in a book. I’m not an expert on every subject under the Delhi sun—other than news television anchors, nobody is. Yet, as the leader of my party in the Rajya Sabha, and chief national spokesperson of the All India Trinamool Congress, I have endeavoured to keep abreast of current policy debates and concerns. I have tried to either study them or meet people with keen and often differing insights.

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