The Congress is always teflon coated.

Big news! The newly elected Congress Chief Minister of Karnataka has selected 28 Members of Assembly, who are not known to be " tainted ", for his cabinet. TOI, 19 May. This will come as a shock to all Indians who are used to seeing the most notorious criminals completely whitewashed on joining the Congress. The CBI runs around all over the world but can find nothing in the Bofors case, eye witnesses develop complete amnesia in Sajjan Kumar's case, Lokyuktas or governors never order criminal charges in the Adarsh case in Maharashtra or the Commonwealth Games case in Delhi and even if caught red handed by sheer bad luck the courts repeatedly give bail for decades in Sukhram's case. It is completely different where the BJP is concerned. Narendra Modi is being hounded in Gujarat and the victory in Karnataka was achieved by causing a split in the BJP by the Lokyukta bringing charges against the BJP Chief Minister, Yeddyurappa which have not held up in court. Forced to resign as chief minister Mr Yeddyurappa left the BJP and formed his own party, called the Karnataka Janata Paksha, hoping to get around 43 seats in the assembly and hold the balance of power in a coalition government. In the event the BJP lost heavily because its vote was split and Mr Yeddyurappa ended up with just 6 seats, making him very weak. Whether he will now crawl back to the BJP we shall see. The Congress had no such qualms selecting Mr Virbhadra Singh, accused of lots of corruption, as candidate for chief minister for the Himachal Pradesh elections and won easily. So we are liable to get shocked to see the Congress acting shy. However, this sudden unexpected attempt at cleanliness has caused some members to feel slighted. Not because they were hoping to increase their bank balances by billions of rupees, not at all, but because they were hoping to serve the people of Karnataka by becoming ministers. In Yadgir, Congress workers ransacked party offices and set fire to windows because Mr Maalaka  Reddy was overlooked. In Mandya and Ramanagara they held dharnas, which are very noisy protest meetings, in support of DK Shivakumar and a supporter of Mr Tanveer Sait tried to set himself on fire in Mysore. We will never suggest that these people are aggrieved because they were looking forward to getting a share of the contents of large black bags that are routinely presented to ministers by businessmen looking to get inflated contracts, large tracts of land or mining licenses. It is surely because they are all disappointed at not being able to serve the people. You have to admire the Congress.