FINANCE COMMISSION-Keeping States in Picture

rules or has ruled in the past. But that is possibly just one aspect of its inexperience. It is not surprising then that the unspoken concern at Gandhinagar was in fact over the lacklustre performance of the Vajpayee government so far And unless the government succeeds in conjuring up a new focus, a new triumph, there is every danger that the loss of direction among the rank and file of the party, so evident in Gandhinagar, may become more pronounced.