GOLD-Spurt in Smuggling

gain has accrued from supporting the National Front government save the increased visibility of a few of its leading lights has finally been moved to make a parenthetic insertion in the national political discourse. The convention against communalism held recently at Delhi for which the initiative came from the CPI(M) and the CPI was eventful largely on account of BJP's predicted response to a move that was so unambiguously directed against it. The not unwarranted perception that the BJP has succeeded in influencing the government more than the Left has been able to manage appears to be the motive behind the exercise against communalism. The BJP, widely perceived as the leading representative of communalism with a respectable parliamentary presence, would naturally enough be made the focus of an all-party attack just when the party is consciously seeking to shed its communal image.