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Rane in Congress

Expelled Shiv Sena leader Narayan Rane's statement on joining the Congress that he will uphold the sanctity and purity of the Gandhi cap as well as the tricolour sounds hollow. He has shed overnight the ideology to which he was wedded for 30 years because of personal differences with the Sena leader. Politicians want only power.

Hilda Raja,
Chennai

The Congress has lowered its image by admitting Mr. Rane. It can no longer boast of a secular ideology. It is a pity that the party has placed politics before image by admitting people who have all along followed a communal ideology.

M. William,
Ahmedabad

Mr. Rane's exit was based on personal differences with Bal Thackeray, and not ideology. How is it that a staunch proponent of Hindutva was welcomed by the secular Congress without his even denouncing and disassociating himself from the non-secular principles and policies of the Sena? Is not the offer of a ministerial berth to him a form of horse-trading?

S. Krishnakumar,
New York

Mr. Rane claimed that the Sena smacked of dynastic politics and that its supremo was favouring the little cub Uddhav. And which party did he join? The Congress. Is it Mr. Rane's contention that the Congress is a cradle of meritocracy in which there is no such thing as dynasty or family?

Isn't it amazing that while small parties are castigated for dynastic succession, the whole country accepts the divine right of the Nehru-Gandhi family to rule India?

Rosemary John,
Kasumpti, Shimla

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