—Former prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee, July 6, 2004
Evidently, the UPA government begs to disagree. In what amounts to a rigorous purge, the Congress-led government is closing in on sundry political appointees of the NDA regime, particularly those with RSS backgrounds. The scrutiny is all-encompassing—information, culture, the arts, history, bureaucracy, not a field is spared.

The Congress has lapped it up. Says a Sonia Gandhi aide, less cagey about being outspoken: "Yes, the detoxification drive...

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