LIKE PAKISTAN THE CONGRESS ALSO TRIED TO CREATE A DIVERSION

The war hysteria being built up by Pakistan till recently was to successfully divert the world's attention away from their having been caught out with their hands in the cookie jar after the Mumbai terrorist attack. It also helped the Congress govt. to join issue and allowed it to flex its unused muscles to fool the people.

But the biggest hoax was almost pulled off by the Congress through one of its own- Diggy Raja aka Digvijay Singh, ex-CM of Madhya Pradesh when he floated a blatant lie when he stated that the Mumbai terrorists had wanted to bargain with the release of their hostages in the Mumbai hotels against their comrades in Indian custody. But the "resolute" Congress said an emphatic NO as they refused to buckle under any terrorist blackmail as Diggy elaborated. How this jerk and his handlers in his Party expected us to believe this hogwash is anybody's guess.

This lie was resorted to in order to draw a parallel with the Kandahar hijack and show up the then BJP govt. in bad light for having buckled under the hijackers' threats of blowing up the hijacked Airbus 300 along with all its passengers. But Desperate Diggy was soon exposed by members of his own govt. a few days later when it denied any such thing having taken place.

As the BJP is not being given a fair share of its due in the English media it should try and start another mass contact program across India to go to the people directly to explain its position instead of some of its leaders putting on their best clothes and make-up for mouthing half baked views on various TV channels only. But will they brave the cold and fog on the road and get out of the comfort of TV Studios? Is Advani listening or is he too impatient to become the next PM through a patchwork coalition?