The decisions were not easy – particularly since the contesting ministry was the Home Ministry. The Home Ministry, housed in North Block on Raisina Hill, was and is still seen as a government within the government. And it was totally opposed to a body being created for collecting and securing a database on Indians. A lesser politician would have found it tough to mobilise consensus in the face of such stiff opposition. But Mukherjee, who has had a ring-side view of history and power politics since the 1960s, is regarded across party lines as the encyclopaedic authority on government and
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Biased? Or genuine?
