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Congress makes standard complaint about India (10)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

parliament

'congress' is the definition.
(thesaurus)

'standard complaint about india' is the wordplay.
'standard' becomes 'par' (standard of play in golf).
'complaint' becomes 'lament' (lament is a kind of complaint).
'about' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'india' becomes 'i' (phonetic alphabet: alpha, bravo, charlie etc.).
'lament' enclosing 'i' is 'liament'.
'par'+'liament'='PARLIAMENT'

'makes' acts as a link.

(Other definitions for parliament that I've seen before include "Legislative assembly" , "UK legislature" , "Legislative body" , "Diet" , "Houses" .)

I've seen this clue in The Guardian.
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