POLITICS OF CONVENIENCE  !

Today his party is baying for blood, demanding that the government secure the extradition of the former Union Carbide chairman, Warren Anderson, to India for trial. However, when he was Law Minister a decade ago, BJP leader Arun Jaitley endorsed the legal opinion that “our extradition case appears to be weak.”

According to a 2001 note from the office of the Ministry of Law, Justice, and Company Affairs, Mr. Jaitley endorsed the opinion of the former Attorney-General, Soli Sorabjee, that “the evidence so far collected does not appear to be sufficient at this time” .