The Supreme Court judgement in the 2G scam is an indictment of A Raja, not that of the then finance minister or the Prime Minister who, in Nehru's words, is the "lynchpin" of the government. Nowhere in the 90-page order did the court invoke the principle of collective responsibility the Opposition has with such gusto used to put the government on the mat, especially P Chidambaram and Manmohan Singh.