Congress’s crass minorityism

Nothing can be more bizarre than a political party distancing itself from the public utterances of its senior office-bearers and Ministers, thereby seeking to wash its hands of both accountability and responsibility. Yet that’s exactly what we have been witnessing this past week with the Congress fobbing off journalists wanting to know the party’s position on Mr Salman Khurshid’s promise to Muslims of Uttar Pradesh and Mr Digvijay Singh’s uninhibited slander of a police officer who died fighting terrorists, by describing those statements as no more than “personal views” which do not have political sanction.

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