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Posted on 22 February, 2014, No Comments Comments admin
The last session of the Parliament ended yesterday. We look back on the last five years with a mixed feeling. The last five years showed a disturbed Parliament. On one hand, the disturbances in Parliament were much higher than in the past. On the other hand, some of the most outstanding debates took place and some longstanding legislations were approved by the Parliament. The BJP has a sense of satisfaction that we contributed to some very important debates on the economy, federalism, national security and corruption. At the same time the party rose above partisan considerations and supported several legislations such as the Food Bill, the Land Acquisition Bill ,the Lokpal Bill and the Andhra Pradesh Bifurcation.
The last five years of Parliament witnessed the government facing serious allegations of corruption like the 2G Spectrum Allocation, the Coal Block Allocation Scam, the Commonwealth Game Scam, the VVIP Agusta Helicopter deal as some of the scams that eroded the credibility of the Government. There was a non-performing government on the management of the economy. The growth rate of the country had depleted, the fiscal deficit rose to record high, the Rupee had weakened. The investment environment in the country was extremely disturbed. The decision making process of the Government was paralyzed. On National Security, existence of insurgency picked up in the Maoist dominated regions of the country. Jihadi terrorism, both cross-border and indigenous continued to flourish. The UPA government had linked inaction on national security with vote bank politics rather than security considerations. On foreign policy, India lived in disturbed neighbourhood. Our relations with most of our immediate neighbours deteriorated. Initial years saw the UPA government becoming subservient to the United States and finally the relationship between India and the US soured on certain recent incidents.
The UPA had hostile attitude towards various established institutions. The Public Accounts Committee was not allowed to effectively function. The JPC on the 2G allocation scam came out with a report which damaged the credibility of the Parliamentary institution. The CAG was repeatedly attacked in the Parliament. It was this confrontationist attitude of the UPA, which resulted in the loss of certain working days of the Parliament, particularly when it came to investigating several scams in the Government. The last three sessions of Parliament were lost on account of mishandling of the Telangana issue by the UPA. It was the Congress members of the Parliament who led the disturbances in these sessions. We end the last session of Parliament with a sense of satisfaction. To the best of our ability we performed our role as an effective Opposition. The June, 2009 session of the Parliament started on a high note for the UPA when it had been elected for the second term. The February, 2014 session ended in an all-time low with the prospect of the UPA being reduced to a much smaller political combination. The Parliament was used as an effective instrument to keep the Government in check and expose its misdemeanor. Our only regret is more debate and lesser disturbances would have enabled us to expose the UPA even more.
Posted on 20 February, 2014, No Comments Comments admin
In the last few decades several countries moved in the direction of abolition of the death sentence. Many well meaning people in India joined in this demand. However, the emergence of terrorism in the last three decades has influenced my thinking against it. Can a country which has suffered so extensively on account of terrorism move towards being an abolitionist? It is precisely on account of the emergence of terror in India that India has not joined the abolitionist bandwagon. However, the Supreme Court, in a balancing act, while uploading the death penalty has restricted it to ‘rarest of rare’ cases.
Posted on 18 February, 2014, No Comments Comments admin
Narendra Modi is indeed a problem for the Congress Party. It is precisely for this reason that the Congress/UPA has used every method, fair or foul to counter him. They are still at sea how to deal with him.
The media campaign engineered against him did not cut much ice. The SIT constituted by the Supreme Court gave a favourable report. The Judge, dealing with the case, accepted the SIT report. Despite bending backwards the CBI could not find a shred of evidence against him. The Congress Party’s hopes that Narendra Modi would be isolated politically have been dashed. Besides political allies, his popularity amongst the people has reached an unprecedented level.
The UPA government has now invented a new curious method, which it hopes can tackle him. Absurd that it may sound, they now propose to tax Modi’s rallies. Considering the mammoth crowds who gather to listen to Narendra Modi all over the country, this can be Finance Minister’s faint hope of augmenting his otherwise depleting revenue.
On February 12, the Directorate General of Central Excise and Intelligence has issued a letter to the BJP and its Chandigarh office. The notice mentions “as the entry tickets to the event were not for any admission to any entertainment event or access to amusement facilities (which are in the negative list) the same is taxable in the hands of the person collecting the amount of tickets. It appears that the BJP/Shri Narendra Modi has (sic.) neither got registered under the Service Tax nor paid tax on collection from tickets”. The notice, therefore, desires that the details of the alleged entry tickets to Modi’s rallies should be furnished immediately for calculation of service tax payable by Shri Narendra Modi or the BJP. The Chandigarh unit of the BJP has not organized any rally of Narendra Modi as yet.
Obviously, there are no tickets for Narendra Modi’s rallies. Either at the rallies or elsewhere in the country, the BJP has launched a massive fund collection campaign. Our effort is to reach 10 crores households for fund collection. The Directorate General of Central Excise and Intelligence appears to be believing that the BJP/Narendra Modi renders service to those who come to attend Narendra Modi’s rallies. They believe that Mr. Modi’s rally is neither ‘entertainment event nor access to amusement facilities’ hence they are liable to levy of service tax. A legitimate question arises if such notice for collecting funds is only being issued to the BJP or to other political parties, particularly the Congress Party. There is no doubt that the UPA government has taken leave of all its senses. I hope the people realize the extent of desperation to the extent the Congress has stooped to. If this is how the principal opposition party or its Prime Ministerial candidate can be harassed, the extent of plight of common taxpayers in the country can be easily understood.
Posted on 17 February, 2014, No Comments Comments admin
The Finance Minister presented Vote on Account estimates before the Parliament today. It was an electoral imperative for him to attempt to repackage the 10 years of the UPA. He is faced with a harsh reality. He inherited an 8.5 percent GDP growth rate. He exits on a 4.5 percent GDP growth. The last three years of the UPA witnessed a sharp fall in the growth rate from a near 9 percent to less than 5 percent. He, therefore, had to lean back on larger slogans such as his ‘Idea of India’. Obviously, in an ideologically pluralistic society, there can be more than one ‘Idea of India’. None can usurp the title of a book and claim it only belongs to him.
The Finance Minister had set a laxman-rekha for himself last year. The fiscal deficit had to be brought down to 4.8 percent. He now claims to have brought it down to 4.6 percent. He achieves this spectacular feat not by bringing in revenue buoyancy or by reviving the investment cycle but by cutting down expenditure, particularly the capital expenditure. The grants for creation of Capital Assets and Capital Expenditure has been cut down by as high as Rs. 91,000 crores. This alone would have impacted the GDP to the extent of 0.8 percent. Similarly, allocations to various Ministries in the current year shows wide difference between the Budget estimates 2013-14 and the Revised Estimates of 2013-14. The grant to the Ministry of Drinking Water and Sanitation are cut down by 21. 3 percent. The grant to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare is cut down by 20.6 percent. The grant to the Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation is cut down by 41.97 percent, MHA by 31.3 percent, Ministry of HRD by Six percent, Ministry of Road Transport & Highways by 18.72 percent and Ministry of Rural Development by 22.92 percent. . These are all departments and ministries which relate to social sector and infrastructure. Only the Ministry of Finance grants have been increased by 18.3 percent.
Then the grants to the States have been cut down from the Budget Estimates of Rs. 1,36,254 Crores to Rs. 1,19,039 Crores- a reduction of 12.6 percent.
This slowdown in the manufacturing sector is a huge concerns. This directly reflects on job creation. The excise duties in the current year, which were estimated to be Rs.1,97,554 Crores has now been revised to Rs.1,79,538 – a reduction of 9.1 percent.
The FM has taken credit for the stellar performance of the Agriculture sector but the real credit goes to the States like Gujarat , Madhya Pradesh and Chhatisgarh which have consistently given double digit growth rates in Agriculture.
The subsidy outgo on Food, Fertilizer and Fuel has been projected at Rs. 2,46,397 Crores for 2014-15. Out of this, fuel subsidy is at 65,000 crores, Fertilizer at 36,970 crores and Food subsidy is at 1,15,000 crores. The combined expenditures on all Food schemes has been reduced from 1,24,844 Crores in 2013-14 to 1,15,000 crores in 2014-15 representing a fall. This is much below the expectations under the food security scheme which requires a much larger outlay. The subsidies in fuel has been underestimated year after year. The FM has once again rolled over fuel subsidies worth Rs.35,000 Crores to the next fiscal. This move is a mere statistical illusion to keep the fiscal deficit look optically correct while its inflationary impact on the economy remains real.
The FM has again harped on the OROP viz. the one rank one pension scheme and transferred Rs.500 Crores to the Defence Pension Account. The UPA Government has been paying lip service to the cause of defence personnel. In the earlier Budget in 2009-10, a committee was set up and its recommendations were promised to be implemented. But the grievances remained as the approach was half-baked. Again the FM has promised that this cause has been completely addressed in this Budget. There should be no attempt to play with the aspirations of our Armed Forces.
Even though the Vote-on-Account is only for a period of four months, there are serious concerns on the growth rate, real Fiscal deficit, inflation, investment and the slow down in manufacturing sector. The stability of the Rupee is a matter of concern particularly because the Rupee itself has reached unacceptable levels.
Will the Finance Minister seriously introspect on the legacy he would leave behind for the next Finance Minister? The Finance Minister will be a relieved man today. His successor will be in trouble.
Posted on 16 February, 2014, No Comments Comments admin
As we enter the last week of the Parliament session a legitimate question which arises for consideration is –who is responsible for the non-passage of several pending legislations? The Congress Vice President, Rahul Gandhi yesterday made a statement that the BJP has blocked the Anti-graft legislations in the Parliament.
The truth is that the Congress conceived of some legislations towards the end of UPA’s 10 year rule. By this time the party had lost majority in both Houses of parliament. Most of these legislations and several other laws such as legislation relating to protection to be provided to street vendors or setting up of a central university in Bundelkhand are not subject matters of any controversy. These are laws which can be passed after some discussion. Several organizations of disabled persons have been pressing for early consideration and passage of laws which deal with the issues of concern to them. Just as Rahul Gandhi blamed the BJP yesterday for the non-passage of the Anti graft laws, stake holders in relation to other legislations are being fed with similar arguments.
The facts in this regard need to be clearly stated. The BJP has no reservation against most of these legislations. We are willing to support them. Not a single BJP Member has disturbed the proceedings of either of the two Houses of Parliament. No BJP member has gone into the well of the House. We assemble every morning in Parliament. The Houses are disturbed on account of the issues relating to bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh which is pending consideration. The Speaker and the Chairman of the Houses regularly adjourn the Houses since proceedings cannot be conducted in this environment. A large number of members of the Congress Party disturb the Houses every day. I don’t think Rahul Gandhi has had time to either come to the House or acquaint himself with the disturbance being created by his own Party members. Not having spoken even once on major scams such as the 2G spectrum allocation, the Coal Block allocation, the Commonwealth Games organization etc., he has only belatedly realized that corruption is a major issue in Indian politics. Instead of patting himself on the back for this rather belated realization and taking undue credit for introducing these legislations towards the fag end of the tenure, Rahul Gandhi needs to look inwards and find out the honest answer to the question why these legislations are held up. Because it is the Congress Members who repeatedly disturb the House. They are held up because the Government is not able to restore order in the House. The moment Rahul Gandhi realizes the truth and his party takes corrective actions, the BJP will have no difficulty in supporting most of these legislations.
Posted on 15 February, 2014, No Comments Comments admin
The nightmare is finally over. The worst ever State Government that Delhi has ever witnessed has resigned. The AAP party Government decided to submit its resignation to the Lt. Governor. The past 49 days witnessed an unconventional Government. It was a Government without an agenda and without an ideology. It was a Government committed to populism and demagogue.
Clever politics and no governance – this appeared to be the motto of the AAP government in Delhi. This was a Government without a mandate. It had only 28 seats. The BJP was a bigger party. The AAP had no qualms before accepting shamelessly the Congress support in order to prove the majority. Most of its MLAs were inexperienced. They lacked maturity. At times, they were outlandish. They had an agitational approach but were foreign to any form of governance.
Did the AAP government decide to expand the drinking water connectivity in Delhi? Did they seriously conceive of a scheme to increase the healthcare facilities in Delhi? Did they ever think of setting up new schools and colleges? Did they ever think over expanding the technical educational institutions in Delhi? What about taking Delhi Metro to the next phase? Did the idea of more flyovers and better PWD roads ever cross their thinking? These are all areas which add to the quality of life of those living in a large metropolis. These are real areas of governance. The 49-day government had no mind space for any of these issues.
It concentrated its approach only to agitational issues. It agitated against the Home Minister, against the Lt. Governor, against the Commissioner of Police and against the African ladies. Its approach was to concoct falsehood and create imaginary enemies and then carry on propaganda on the strength of attacking the imaginary enemies. It had the arrogance to believe that only its leaders were honest and everybody else was compromised. It started losing popularity with everyday in government. The Party had realized that its leaders sitting in Sachivalaya were ‘a bull in a China shop’. They were more suited to the streets. It therefore crafted an exit route for itself. Its Jan Lokpal Bill was kept as a closely guarded secret till the last day. The ‘Lokpal content’ of the Bill is not radically different from the Central legislation but it wanted to create a false propaganda that its Bill is a revolutionary one in comparison to the central law. It decided to defy the conventional procedure for legislative approval in order to invent a pretext for resignation.
The AAP Government has exited. It defied the hopes of many who wanted to see an alternative politics emerge. The alternative politics was populism, demagogue, falsehood but no governance. Thank God, the nightmare is over.
Posted on 13 February, 2014, No Comments Comments admin
The US ambassador Ms. Nancy Powell has met the Gujarat Chief Minister Mr. Narendra Modi today. The decision by the US administration to resume contact with the Gujarat Chief Minister appears to be based on their suo moto assessment of the domestic situation in India. I regard it as an internal corrective of the US administration. The earlier decision not to keep contact with an elected representative in India did not appear to be based on any cogent evidence or court verdicts. It was based on excessive propaganda in the media and elsewhere created by certain NGOs.
For us in the BJP, the meeting is a part of the diplomatic routine. The Gujarat Chief Minister is unquestionably the frontrunner in the 2014 general elections. He has convincingly won the State assembly elections three times. The earlier decision of some countries not to deal with him was a failure of India’s foreign policy. It is not for a political party or a State government, to react to another country’s response of dealing or otherwise with elected representatives in India. It was for the External Affairs Ministry (MEA) to react to it. Did the MEA under the UPA fail in this regard? Unquestionably it did.
The reaction of the External Affairs Minister Mr. Salman Khurshid to this meeting is self-evident. The Congress Party is today a demoralized lot. For it the writing on the wall is very clear. Its best case scenario is a defeat in the elections. The logical scenario appears to be indicating a complete rout. Its vote base has disappeared. The arrogance of its leaders still remains. That arrogance is evident even in the reactions in the past few hours. The External Affairs Minister who should have protected the dignity of an elected representative in India appears distressed even as the US Ambassador met the Gujarat Chief Minister.
The Indo-US relationship is an important pillar of India’s foreign policy. The NDA Government led by Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee had contributed to strengthening of this relationship. All sides must realize that restraint and statesmanship can enable us to overcome transient problems. Aberrations cannot be exaggerated to disturb the balance in the relationship.
Posted on 12 February, 2014, No Comments Comments admin
Federalism is part of the basic structure of India’s constitution. Federal principles are unamendable. The jurisdiction of the Centre and the State is clearly demarcated. There is no scope for any grey area.
Ordinarily, when we perceive threats to federalism, it is suspected that encroachment of federal principles is by the Centre. The Centre, through its agencies, cannot usually investigate what happens in the States. It is only in extreme cases that it issues an advisory or where there is breakdown of constitutional machinery, it can invoke powers under Articles 356. The CBI’s powers to investigate public servants of the State is restricted to cases where the States specifically consent to the investigating agency or where the High Courts or the Supreme Court issues a direction to the CBI to so investigate.
What happened in Delhi yesterday, therefore, merits a comment. My comment is not concerned with the fairness or otherwise of the fixation of prices of natural gas. Aggrieved persons are entitled to raise the issue in Parliament and even seek an investigation directly from the Centre or through a court process. The issue is can the State government, through its Anti-Corruption Branch, investigate a decision taken by the Central Government?
Delhi is a Union Territory with a State assembly. Legislative and Executive jurisdiction of Delhi is circumscribed by Article 239AA. Entries 1, 2 and 18 of the State List under the Seventh Schedule are not applicable to Delhi. Entry 1 deals with public order, Entry 2 with police and Entry 18 with land. Thus powers to regulate public order and police are currently not with the Legislative Assembly of Delhi. Executive powers are co-extensive with legislative powers. The Delhi government has, therefore, no police powers. What thus is the function of the Anti-Corruption Branch of the Delhi Government? The Anti-Corruption Branch is part of the Vigilance Directorate of the Delhi Government. In pith and substance, it is the function related to vigilance and not to the police powers. In relation to the vigilance it has all the powers to deal with erring public servants and departments of the Delhi government. Thus for the Vigilance Directorate of Delhi government or the Anti-Corruption Branch under it, to possess unlimited powers of the police within the geographical territory of Delhi would imply that Entry 2 of the State list is made applicable to Delhi. This has been specifically prohibited by Article 239AA of the Constitution. This would further imply a parallel jurisdiction in relation to the functioning of the Central government located in the National Capital. The Central government, would parallelly be both under its own Vigilance jurisdiction and that of the Delhi government’s Vigilance jurisdiction. This would imply, that from the Prime Minister to the Cabinet Secretary to all public servants would be susceptible to the jurisdiction of the State government. The existence of these police powers itself is doubtful. To put the Central Government under the police jurisdiction of the State government would be a constitutional monstrosity. It would be violation of federal principles in reverse. Compliance with the letter and spirit of the Constitution requires restraint and statesmanship. Constitutional institutions cannot be preserved by acts of adventurism. I seriously doubt the correctness of the judicial opinion which holds otherwise.
The ‘single-point directive’ applicable to the Public Servants of the rank of Joint Secretary and above states that before investigating officers falling under it, consent of the Central government is required. The Supreme Court had struck down this directive on the ground that it had no statutory backing. The statutory backing was enacted, which has since then been challenged before the Supreme Court. One of the rationales behind the controversial ‘single-point directive’ was that law and order and policing are State subjects. What if a Sub-Inspector of Police in a State were to summon the Prime Minister or the Cabinet Secretary for investigation? This power could also be misused for political reasons. The opinion expressed was that before such an investigation is undertaken, prior permission of Central government is required. The ‘single- point directive’ has been criticized. The action of the Delhi government in wanting to investigate the decision of the Central government has underscored the rationale behind the ‘single-point directive’. The AAP government must realize that enthusiasm and adventurism may not set the best of constitutional precedents.
Posted on 10 February, 2014, No Comments Comments admin
The last weekend was an extremely busy one for Narendra Modi and the BJP. On Saturday, he was in Imphal, Gauhati and finally in Chennai addressing rallies. On Sunday, after an initial programme of an educational institution in Chennai, he was addressing different functions at Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram.
The defining moment of public functions was the unprecedented audience response to Narendra Modi. The Imphal rally is perceived to be the largest political rally in Manipur. The BJP does not have a very strong organization in Manipur. Despite that, for Modi to draw an unprecedented crowd itself is an indicator of the current mood. He attracted massive crowds at the party rallies at Gauhati and Chennai and finally in Kerala. His other functions defied religious and the caste divide. The communities, where there had been lesser support for the BJP in the past, enthusiastically invited him to their functions. Their response was overwhelming.
There is currently a mood of disillusionment with Congress. People are looking for a hope. Does Modi symbolize all that an exasperated population is looking for? People want a tall, inspirational and decisive leader. They want to redefine standards of probity? Price rise, unemployment and stagnation of economy are disturbing them. It is, therefore, understandable that in traditional BJP strongholds in north, central and western parts of the country Modi should draw an unprecedented response. What does this unprecedented support mean in areas where the BJP traditionally has not been very strong? How is it that in states of the north-east, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Kerala the attendance at Modi rallies is unprecedented and the crowd response is electrifying? Does this trend signify something more?
Obviously such mammoth crowds do not appear out of thin air? They indicate a strong undercurrent. It is an undercurrent, which is motivated both by anger and also with hope. The people are angry with the status quo. They want a change. Modi signifies that change and the hope that the change will be for the better. The political support behind Modi now needs to convert this election into a referendum on Modi. If he manages to do so, this undercurrent will translate into seats. The support of the various sections of the society is much larger than the strength of the BJP in those states. Are we in for a pleasant surprise in these regions?
Posted on 07 February, 2014, No Comments Comments admin
I had, on June 4 2013, made a detailed comment inviting attention ‘Should CBI uncover the IB’. India’s internal security is challenged by several cross-border and local modules. From Jihadi terror to Maoist insurgency we find a continuous challenge being faced by the Indian State. Intelligence and counter-insurgency are one of the most effective responses to deal with this challenge. These operations include the collection and dissemination of information, intercepts, intrusion into insurgency modules, financial temptations given to informers and busting of such modules. Our intelligence agencies have to carry out these operations in utmost secrecy. Covert operations are undertaken but never admitted. A large number of these operations are without the backing of statutory law, since intelligence agencies in India function only on the basis of internal procedures of the government. This is on account of larger public and national interest. Hopefully, as we mature as a democracy, these operations could be brought under the framework of law and then subjected to an element of limited Parliamentary scrutiny.
The intelligence agencies get information with regard to the proposed activity of terrorist module of which Ishrat Jehan was a part. This information is processed and disseminated. The module is busted and its operations are foiled. The fact that Ishrat was a part of Lashkar-e-Taiyyaba (LET) is evidenced by Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JUD) claiming through its Lahore based Ghazwa Times that its activist has been killed. Subsequently, David Headley in his interrogation by both the FBI and NIA admits to this operation. The Legal Attaché of the US Embassy in India has issued a document to the Intelligence Bureau in response to its queries further evidencing this fact.
When the alleged encounter of Ishrat Jehan and her associates took place, the UPA-I was already in power. In a public interest litigation filed in the Gujarat High Court by her parents, the Union government took a categorical stand that Ishrat was a LeT operative and the alleged encounter of June 15, 2004 was genuine. This was when Shri Shivraj Patil was the Home Minister. The change in the Home Ministry led a change in Government’s stand. Under Shri P. Chidambaram as the new Home Minister, the Home Ministry in its affidavit decides to wash its hands off from the encounter. It now starts cooperating with the petitioner for probing the entire operation. The political establishment had hoped that its other attempts having failed, probing this could be a case for implication of the political leaders of the Gujarat government.
After being investigated by an SIT set up by the Court the case is referred to the CBI for investigation. Among the officers associating with the investigation was a person who was selected by Ishrat’s parents who were petitioners. The SIT comprised of three persons, one of whom was the petitioner’s Nominee. A large number of policemen, named in the FIR, belonging to the Gujarat Police are arrested. Negotiations are held with them and a political bargain is struck. Chargesheet is not filed against them within 90 days; and they are given a benefit of default bail. Those who decided to turn witnesses are promised that they would be left out of the chargesheet even though some of them are present when the actual killing took place. Their own statements implicate them and yet they are neither accused nor approvers, they are mere witnesses. Their names were excluded from the first and second chargesheets as accused. This is a procedure unknown to law. Statements given by these persons are recorded under section 164 CrPC not in Ahmedabad but in a court in Mumbai. An accused cannot be a witness against a co-accused. He can only be an approver. Those present in the actual shootout are excluded from the list of the accused so that they can implicate others who were not even present in the shootout.
A feeble attempt is made to implicate the political leaders of Gujarat. A theory of white beard and black beard is concocted. But that is not evidence enough. The ire now turns towards the IB. Those who were responsible for evidence collection, busting the module, interrogation of the accused are all sought to be implicated. The terrorist credentials of the victims are sought to be retrospectively wiped out. Two charge sheets have now been presented to the court.
The alleged encounter took place when UPA-I was in power. Admittedly there is no evidence against the political leaders of Gujarat. The covert operations of the central Intelligence Bureau have been made the subject matter of a criminal law investigation. The source of information of the IB, the veracity of that information, the dissemination of that information, the manner of busting the module, the interrogation of the victims, the organization of logistical support in busting the module will all be a subject matter of criminal law trial. The ultimate wise man who was the Home Minister in 2009 undertook the operation with the idea of implicating Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. He has ended up implicating the IB, an agency of the UPA Government which during the tenure of the UPA is being accused of having engineered the fake encounter. The nature of the encounter would be adjudicated by the competent court. However, the damage done to India’s intelligence agencies and its ability to undertake covert operations is irreparable. In my Article of 4th June, 2013 I had written “Only Pakistan and LeT would have the last laugh. The myopic political regime in Delhi has not realized the significance of destroying the institutions. Harass the Gujarat Government even if it means destroying India’s security apparatus -The objective of the Congress Party is clear.”