important thing Mulayam will stake is his image as the Patron Saint for all the skull cap sporting rage boys of Uttar Pradesh who never tire from raking up Pan-Islamic issues to mobilize Muslim street protests. In fact it was this same Patron Saint image that saw the CPI-Mafioso leadership from Karat to Yechury line up alongside Mulayam in Uttar Pradesh to oppose India’s vote against Iran in the IAEA on the Nuclear issue as well as to protest George W Bush visit to India.
So if the Patron Saint of Pan-Islamism in Uttar Pradesh Mulayam Singh is willing to stake his halo to bail out Sonia Gandhi, it is germane to ask what pound of flesh is his Fixer and Broker-in Chief Amar Singh is demanding from his Congress negotiators ? i welcome’s all to opine on this open question !
