Till the guilty of Gujarat 2002 are brought to book, the opprobrium, moral as well as political, will attach to the BJP. The party must realise that it does not have the option to evade and to sidestep. The BJP’s politics runs through Gujarat. Should the party need inspiration to do the right thing in this context, it has it in Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s expression of unqualified regret for the anti-Sikh violence of 1984.