Explanation or exercise in self-delusion?

If indeed the attachment to the Office Memorandum is an inter-Ministerial background paper, it ought to have been distributed to all the participants, whereas the OM and its enclosure were clearly sent only to the PMO. Mr Mukherjee's latest explanatory note, as the “official” sources would have it, does not question or rebut any of these impressions. So, for all the effort made by the principal dramatis personae — Mr Mukherjee and Mr Chidambaram — to keep up appearances, the damage done by the OM remains.

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