Congress Undemocratic Ideology - 4

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<b>A real con job called Conspiracy Theory</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->All the clichés were trotted out: That Mr Antulay feared no one but god (loud applause), that he did not care for office (“Take my resignation!”) et al. But the record shows that while it takes very little to persuade Mr Antulay to offer to resign, it takes a great deal to force Mr Antulay out of office. When Babri masjid was demolished, and Mumbai suffered two months of riots, Mr Antulay did not even offer to resign from Parliament. There were two reasons. First, three-and-a-half years were left before the next general election, not just three-and-a-half months. Second, PV Narasimha Rao would have accepted the resignation immediately. <!--emo&--><img src='style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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Siddharth Varadarajan, writing in the Hindu, had the finest conspiracy theory of the whole lot: <b>That Antulay was a BJP plant in the Congress. It is certainly more logical than the suggestion that Mumbai Police officers conspired with Pakistani terrorists to kill a top officer of their force. At a time of serious tension, all Mr Antulay did was break the unity fashioned in Parliament. Just when it seemed that India was speaking in one voice, he split the Cabinet and handed Pakistan a public relations coup. His bid for pseudo-heroism has given Pakistan effective ammunition in the psychological skirmishing that has become a substitute for open warfare. Before asking India to unite, the Prime Minister might have asked his Cabinet to unite. His abject retreat will not change the Pakistani narrative. Islamabad will accuse Delhi of using pressure to ensure silence</b>.
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