“If the UPA had the guts and the will to respect the will of the people, it should have taught it a lesson the day Pakistan launched a full-scale war on India’s economic capital of Mumbai. On the contrary, the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee rose to the occasion during Kargil war and got every inch of land liberated from marauders,” adds the editorial.

Slamming the BJP, Congress’s Satyavrat Chaturvedi said: “It’s probably their tradition. They have always launched personal attacks on Congress leaders, right from the days of Indira Gandhi. This also shows their doublespeak. On the one hand, they promise to be one with the government in the country’s war on terror, on the other, they launch a personal attack on the Union Home Minister who has just taken over and initiated some firm, cogent measures to fight terror.”