They have done nothing either to force the government’s pace on the building of infrastructure, so thousands of major projects languish in suspended animation raising costs to taxpayers by the minute. I have always wondered why the Communists never tried to help in matters that directly benefit ordinary Indians. But now the Commissar has given us the answer. It is not in China’s interests for India to become a developed country because it would then be used by the US as a counter to China. To put it even more clearly, it is in the interests of Indian Communists that India remains poor, debased and decrepit forever because then India does not matter.

Well, here is what I think. We must increase our strategic, commercial and nuclear ties with the US to foil this game of Chinese checkers in which we do not even know the rules. It is a shame the prime minister did not have the courage to call the Marxists’ bluff on the nuclear deal, but it’s not too late. Let him stand up to them even now. If they force an early election, there is every indication that Congress will benefit and they will end up in history’s dustbin. What a pleasant thought that is, because it is in that dustbin they belong.