Then the report has made public confidential details of security of the Prime Minister and 10 Janpath, even the type of weapons deployed by our security. Much of what was said to the commission was known to me. After all, I was finance minister and defence minister in Rajiv's cabinet. But even though politically Rajiv and I were in the most intense battle I did not open my lips. I could have hit out.
Duality is required at times in statecraft.
But there is a subtle difference between duality and duplicity. Many times, the foreign office says one thing and intelligence agencies something else. Something got fouled up here, the Government of India lost the confidence of both Sri Lanka and Prabhakaran. Jain says that from 1989, the LTTE militancy took a turn for the worse, he meant to imply when Karunanidhi became chief minister. Not V.P. Singh but Rajiv Gandhi.