Good-Baba, Bad-Baba

While UPA ministers are bending over backwards in their efforts to persuade Baba Ramdev to drop his fast-unto-death against corruption, the Congress party is posturing as if it couldn’t care less about the spiritual guru’s threat.

In fact, statements coming from some Congress leaders suggest that the leadership does not approve of the manner in which the government rolled out the red carpet and all but publicly capitulated before the Baba by sending a high-powered delegation of senior ministers and top bureaucrats to the airport to receive him