Sitaram Kesri, the Congress president who had his dhoti pulled

While making Ashok Gehlot Congress president triggered a crisis, removing Sitaram Kesri from the post was a bigger challenge. Here is the story of the 1998 coup and what happened before and after that reshaped the party.

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