Strategic retreat on RSS bar: Gujarat minister.

GANDHINAGAR, March 9. - In the face of a jubilant Congress Opposition demanding the resignations of the Gujarat Chief Minister, Mr Keshubhai Patel, and the Finance Minister, Mr Vajubhai Vala, the Minister of State for Home, Mr Haren Pandya, today admitted that the controversial circular regarding the RSS had been withdrawn "for strategic reasons".

The day in the Assembly saw Congressmen celebrating their "victory". They marched to the grounds of the Assembly secretariat and garlanded a statue of Mahatma Gandhi and then burst crackers and distributed sweets. One legislator, who carried the sweets inside the House and offered them to the Speaker, was suspended for the …