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udgets are one time opposition parties can corner ruling governments, but in compared the budget with a “dark-complexioned bride who is made to look good with make-up at a beauty parlour”. Then, he apologised for the sexist comment but tried to get even by announcing that he and other BJP MLAs will return the iPhones the Ashok Gehlot government had gifted all MLAs. These days, local media is agog with how many BJP MLAs have returned the iPhone, willingly or otherwise, how many have already started using it and how many have gifted it to their wives or children.

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