In the same statement in Parliament, Chavan also spoke of the Governments disappointment with the Election Commission for declining to recommend the notification of Assembly polls in Jammu and Kashmir. The Government was consulting legal experts on the matter and was planning to go to the Supreme Court, the home minister indicated. Once again, one cannot but reach for the proverbial pinch of salt. Firstly, the very fact that the three-member Election Commission postponed its meeting on Kashmir by a day (the proffered reason was the sudden illness of Election Commissioner G.V.G. Krishnamurthy) and took the decision only after the Prime Ministers return from Burkina Faso had given enough ground to suspect that due consultations had been held with him before the decision was announced. And secondly, if we are to assume that the Election Commissions decision was truly an independent one, does the Government of India, with all its might, need more than a month to get legal opinion on the matter? Chavan may well claim that it is the Law Ministry which has let him down on this score, but then whatever happened to the concept of collective responsibility? What the home minister does not realise, perhaps, is that by seeking to point an accusing finger at the Clinton Administration for Indias woes in Kashmir, he has ended up pointing three fin-gers back at his own Government.