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India Abroad

03-17-2000

Country's first eunuch legislator has a mission to fulfill

It all began two months ago in a small central Indian town where the
residents, fed up with politicians, elected an illiterate eunuch as their
mayor.

Little did the residents of Katni, Madhya Pradesh, realize that by electing
51-year-old Kamla Jaan to the post, they would setting a trend in the
political establishment of the state.

Since Kamla Ja...

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