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Complete the following sentence.
However, the country needs more and more people like Kalam’s Science teacher Sivasubramania and Kalam’s mother and grandmother because ……………....
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Solution
However, the country needs more and more people like Kalam’s Science teacher Sivasubramania and Kalam’s mother and grandmother because these persons symbolise communal harmony, kindness, generosity and social tolera nce. National integration is fully secure in the hands of such people
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