Antony at Work

What does one make of the curious formulations of A K Antony, the highly regarded Congress leader, that the Congress Party fared badly in the Lok Sabha polls because of the widespread perception and resentment among voters that secularism under the Congress actually favoured the minorities, especially the Muslims. [...]why the carry-over of such pointless posturing after the dust of the campaign has settled and no retrospective post-mortem or rationalisation can affect the accomplished fact of the Congress Party's electoral debacle? [...]yet, with a formal ascription of Christian identity, and having an inward understanding of the complex mix of religion, caste and politics in Kerala, he is uniquely qualified to understand and address the genuine and bogus anxieties, and the political and electoral calculations of the two major communities nationally as well.