New Delhi, Aug. 25 -- Union home minister Amit Shah on Sunday said Parliament and state assemblies were places of debate and discussions "but disrupting their functioning for political gains" was not true debate. Calling it a growing trend, he said that elected representatives must rethink protest plans as they limit the nation's development. "If meaningful debates do not take place in the corridors of Parliament and legislative assemblies, they will merely become lifeless buildings..." Shah said at the All India Speakers' Conference. P6

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