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The sole loser in the entire drama is former Karnataka Chief Minister, S.M. Krishna. Sources say Sonia Gandhi has expressed ‘serious displeasure’ about the fact that Krishna had not even bothered to tell the party when after a telephone call from then Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani he decided to withdraw the cases against Bharti. Gandhi is unhappy over Krishna’s cooperative attitude towards the BJP while he was in office and it will cost him dearly in the Congress.
Following Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh’s intransigence on the SYL canal issue and the Manipur mess created by the Congress Chief Minister Ibobi Singh, Sonia Gandhi seems determined to make an example out of Krishna. Since he holds no official post disciplinary action is difficult but Gandhi is appalled at the lack of any political fight to the BJP.
After the Congress party attributed motives to Union Human Resource Development Minister Arjun Singh’s attack on the RSS, Sonia Gandhi stepped in and defended him saying that battling the Sangh (i.e. Sangh Parivar-RSS family) should be an article of faith in the Congress. The lack of political intelligence among her close aides and members of her party hob-nobbing with the BJP also concern her.
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