NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s Parliament on Thursday approved a plan to create a 29th state following days of political mayhem, including a melee in which a lawmaker unleashed pepper spray on his colleagues.
Members of groups opposed to the division of southern Andhra Pradesh state shouted “No, No” to drown out a speech by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh just before the vote in the upper house.
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