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Now, what we find even today is that the police officers have been shunted out because they had taken certain action against the majority people there. They are being transferred. There we find that without any contradiction - we have not seen any contradiction - the police officers are saying in Gujarat: "Allow us to function, you are keeping us almost handicapped, we cannot function, we cannot take action against the perpetrators of such heinous crime". Not one word has come either from the hon. Prime Minister or from the hon. Home Minister. I would like to know what is the response of the hon. Prime Minister or the hon. Home Minister towards the deliberate insult that has been committed by one of the Chief Ministers belonging to the party of the Prime Minister himself. In what language he has criticised the Parliament as a whole? He says and I am quoting because there is no rejoinder, I take it he has been correctly quoted: "There is a systematic attempt made by hypocrites sitting in Delhi to exaggerate the Gujarat situation and they are using the Parliament."

Sir, the hon. Leader of the Opposition has referred to some of the glorious interventions of our present Minister of External Affairs. I am his unabashed admirer. I think, he knows that, although he continues to remain in that company. His observations have already been quoted.

Sir, I am coming to my sister, Shrimati Sushma Swaraj, the most articulate of them. Of course, Shri Yashwant Sinha, in a great bravado, did not imagine that he would be the Minister of Finance one day and he has to find out moneys for tackling the terrorists. He also said something. It has been quoted and I need not quote it. Our worthy hon. Minister of Defence has also said certain things.

Now, I would like to quote about the recent convert, Shri Ram Jethmalani, our distinguished friend. I hope he is present here. I quote:

"You have created a law of which any decent person should be ashamed of. "

 I think, either he has become indecent or the sense of shame has gone. Now, he has chosen his present company. I again quote his observations:

"I wish there were some educated people to advise the then Minister of Home Affairs. "

 Of course, it should equally apply to the present Minister of Home Affairs. He said that there must be somebody who had some intimate knowledge of criminology, some people who had knowledge of the theory of legislation and the theory of penal legislation at that. He said that such advisors should have been available to the Minister of Home Affairs of the Congress Party. I do not remember who was there at that time.

SHRI KAPIL SIBAL: The Law Commission furthers says:

"Those are 20-year-old figures. The position cannot be better if not worse."

 I am very intrigued to hear my good friend, Shri Jaitley to talk about the 180-degree turn that the Congress Party is supposed to have made. Let me remind my good friend and hon. Members of the Treasury Benches what some of them said as far back as 1989 when TADA was brought for extension. I quote Shri Yashwant Sinha. सिन्हा साहब, ११ मई, १९८९ में टाडा कानून को दो साल बढ़ाने की बात पर आपने कहा था।