A flag march by the Army, 31 confirmed deaths (some from gunshot injuries), a sharp indictment from the Punjab and Haryana High Court and an urgent meeting between Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) President Amit Shah and party in-charge of Haryana, Anil Jain, only resulted in one concerted message coming out of the BJP: That Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar, under whose watch three major law and order lapses happened, leading to large-scale arson and looting, will not be replaced.
With the party denying he had been summoned to Delhi, Khattar was effectively exonerated of responsibility of the fall-out of the