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'Another day... '

Sir, — I, for one, have never held a brief for the RSS or for its brand of `Hindutva', but frankly, "Another day, another President" by Harish Khare (Feb. 27) does not make happy reading. Public memory is proverbially short, but it cannot be so short as to forget what the "another President" did "another day" when he allowed the Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, to explore ways of forming her own government to succeed the Vajpayee regime that was voted out by Parliament of the day, resulting in the most expensive mid-term general elections, putting the much-despised A.B. Vajpayee firmly in the saddle as Prime Minister of a coalition government that is making history of sorts by promising to complete its full term in office shortly. Whatever the compulsions behind that crucial decision by that "another President" on that "another day" in favour of Ms. Gandhi, it did not exactly convey anything of the virtue called "impartiality" that is associated with that high office.

Coming to the so-called "official" documents against V.D. Savarkar which, ostensibly, were behind the Opposition's boycott of the Presidential function, may one remind Mr. Khare's fraternity of similar "documents" that were unearthed and publicised 40 years ago about S.A. Dange, one of the founders of the communist movement in India, and ask them whether they have disowned him publicly on that account?

Let it not be forgotten that millions of his countrymen were inspired by V.D. Savarkar to heights of patriotism and heroism in the early years of the last century, including many who later on became stalwarts of the Gandhian era also.

K. Vedamurthy,
Chennai

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