A painful comparison

Sir, - The Prime Minister has committed desecration on his official residence by releasing a book on Lakshman Rao authored by a BJP leader. It was painful to read that Mr. Vajpayee compared Nehru with Lakshman Rao who defended the conspirators of Mahatma Gandhi. The Prime Minister's action was akin to releasing the photos of Veer Savarkar, Vishnu Karkare, Nathuram Godse, to cite a few. Nathuram Godse carried seven bullets in his pistol and used only three to kill the Mahatma. The book release function amounted to firing the remaining four bullets at Gandhiji's grave.

R. Janakiraman,

Cheyyar, T.N.

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