"Manmohan Singh is guilty of pursuing the noble quest for reconciliation at the expense of another maxim of statecraft: those who spurn the public authority's hand of reconciliation must be made to learn the cost of confrontation, " concludes Mr Khare.
It also has taken up to 26 months for some to go through the VDP process, and that cost in Life Credit Units (LCUs) never gets accounted for on a reconciliation balance sheet.