Leader of opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj thanked the Speaker and assured "smooth functioning of the house".

BBC: India parliament to hold economic reforms vote

"BJP has decided very firmly and there will be no compromise, " senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj was quoted by NDTV channel as saying.

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Nobody knows if the urbane Mr Jaitley, who leads the party in Parliament's upper house, or the pugnacious Sushma Swaraj, in the lower house, is really in charge.

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Senior BJP leader Sushma Swaraj said that FDI was "anti-farmer".

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"There is a broad consensus on the land bill, " Bharatiya Janata Party leader Sushma Swaraj said after an all-party meeting called by the government to discuss the bill's provisions.

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In an 11th-hour rescue attempt, Mr Vajpayee sacked the city's chief minister and replaced him with India's redoubtable information minister, Sushma Swaraj, who began checking up on absentee police supervisors in a series of well-publicised late-night inspections.

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Mr Hollande is expected to hold talks with Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid and will call on Sonia Gandhi, chief of the governing Congress party, as well as Sushma Swaraj, leader of the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party.

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