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Cong sycophants

• Thanks for a very balanced article. However you have missed Sonia Gandhi’s name in the list of leaders who could help solve the crisis, because without her instructions, Congress goons and sycophants will never behave properly.
Atma Gandhi

Friendly fire

• Where was Mr Gupta when the Congress party boycotted George Fernandes because of the “Coffingate scam”, which has now been proven to be a figment of the imagination of the Congress party?
Karim Lala

Vajpayee’s failure

• You have disappointed discerning readers by rapping, even if mildly, the knuckles of Manmohan Singh. The NDA and BJP are to be blamed more than anybody else. Particularly unforgettable, even unforgivable, is Vajpayee’s behaviour. Before the elections, the BJP and the NDA went to town praising Vajpayee’s statesmanship, and tom-tommed that he was a cut above the riff raff and ragtag crowd of politicians. If this were indeed the case, he should have called Dr Singh and talked to him if he felt he had been insulted.
R Sundaram

Trite homilies

• I was quite surprised to read the trite homilies addressed to our MPs in the article. To expect the Grand Old Men of India to buckle down to work when there’s an easier way out is expecting too much. Take the example of the Speaker: every time he appears on the TV claiming “sadness” and “helplessness”, I get even more annoyed than I used to when he was in the Opposition! All he has to do is to crack the whip.
Swati Sonee

Not British

• Watching a tense debate in British House of Commons telecast live on the BBC, I noticed that whenever Prime Minister Tony Blair was interrupted, he would sit down in consideration and rise to reply only when the objecting member had made his point. Such is the courtesy that we expect from our parliamentarians. What is worse is that this behaviour spills over to hundreds of other bodies where members justify their bad conduct by quoting instances from Parliament. One way out could be to make our MPs accountable by instituting a provision for their recall.
J M Manchanda