More loyal than the king
(Evening News Saturday Dec. 30 1995)

Call it action and reaction or call it a case of sour grapes, but some overactive members of the Congress (Rao) and Congress (Indira) have taken it upon themselves to decide who will join their party and whose entry will be banned.

It all started by Maninder Singh Bitta, the President of the Indian Youth Congress, giving a call, some time back, to the party that if ever the two Congress parties became one the IYC will protest against the entry of Arjun Singh and N.D. Tewari to the party-fold.

As if to counter this, the NSUI (Indira) in its meeting held recently in the Capital passed a resolution that the Rao Congress will be without Rao after the elections and their members will rush to join the Indira Congress, the NSUI-I would not allow some people to join them because of their anti-Rajiv Gandhi stance.

The name on the hit list of the NSUI-I are those of Jagdish Tytler, M.S. Bitta (naturally), R.K. Dhawan, Y.C. Shukla, Matang Singh, and Labour Minister Venkataswamy. This resolution was passed in the presence of Arjun Singh to the clapping of hands. One can only call it a case of wishful thinking on the part of these more layal than the king leaders.