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Sants and politics

Sir, — You have rightly assessed in your Editorial `Flawed denouement' (March 16) that Ayodhya is back on the centrestage of national politics. Had it not been for the coalition's national agenda for governance, what would the Ayodhya issue have done to the nation by now?

It has been an impressive farce of "national incompatibility" in which each character is playing the role not assigned to him. What is the constitutional propriety of sants and ascetics to serve an ultimatum to the Government on a mundane "political" issue, pertaining to a temporal piece of land?

Had it not been that "political" how could public stalwarts take "full-time" interest in it, amidst their other campaigns? How prudent are we to seek a judicial verdict on a dispute of this kind? We are all being fooled simultaneously. But everyone thinks that he or she is successfully fooling the other.

R.K. Divakara,

Bangalore

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