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Self-defeating

Sir, — By reacting to the outsiders' comments about the tragic happenings in Gujarat in the manner he has done, the Prime Minister, as you have rightly hinted in your Editorial (April 27), has indeed succumbed to the pressures of some lingering doubts within as to the correctness or otherwise of the performance of his Government with regard to the irrefutable communal flare-ups in the State. Instead of taking a defensive stand which has, in fact, resulted in the self-betrayal of his own feeling of guilt, a sort of letting the cat out of the bag he should have, despite any belief that the foreigners concerned had the malicious intent of setting the cat among the pigeons, come out with a statement, giving them the benefit of doubt that the comments in question had been well taken as an innocent expression of the international community's genuine concern for the protection or the non-violation of human rights and the basic principles of democracy.

A.N. Ganapathy,

Chennai

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