You must have gone red in the face when the CM asked you to go slow [while controlling the riots]? A) He would never do that. He would also never write anything on paper. He had his people and through them the VHP and then through them [it would] trickle down through informal channels to the lower rung police inspectors. Q And then you were rendered helpless? A) Precisely. And then we would say, ‘oh why did this happen’ but by then things would have already taken place. Q)
