Hyderabad, July 30 -- I think the headline is enough to understand where I'm going with this piece. All of us expect and know what the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Hindutva groups stand for in our political milieu. Anything that challenges their ideological boat is a threat. And as things stand, with the social fabric and harmony under stress today, we expected the Congress to take a strong and even defiant moral stand against Hindutva and hate in Telangana, a state with a dominant minority population in its capital of Hyderabad.

Alas, the Congress has not just been disappointing, but absolutely pitiful and useless in containing communal trouble ever since it came to power. And not just that, the party and its senior leaders are abno...