Natwar's foot-on-oil?

Whoa! The Congress has now sent a legal notice to the United Nations and its investigator Paul Volcker seeking to know why they were named in the report. As if on a cue, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is now concerned about the unverified references in Volcker’s report. Congress apparently has now decided that it's not a good idea to ask Natwar Singh Singh to resign. Even Prakash Karat, the moral guardian of the UPA coalition, has now decided that the Nehruvian Natwar should stay. So if we expected that Congress would ask Natwar to resign, we did not estimate that morality is a bad word in politics. So what we would see in the next few weeks would be really interesting and downright stupid. The main ruling party of the country would sent legal notices to the body where India is an important member and now seeking a permanent position in its Security Council. We would have a foreign minister whose actions run contrary to India's interests. Interestingly, Hindu, the last refuge of the Commies, has trashed the report like the Congress and Natwar.

The venerable Hindu writes:

But the cases of Mr. Singh and the Congress Party are quite different. The Volcker Committee showed gross irresponsibility, if not political bias, in listing them as beneficiaries without any explanation and without being transparent about the source of the allegations.