A very welcome step, taken by media and public, has been to disclose the real intentions of politicians and unmask their real faces in front of all. Consequently some of the politician have lost their positions in the government and some are likely to be kicked out.Reasons are not just their inefficiency or inactivity to deal terror attacks but their ill-mannered behavior and reactions to public outbursts.

First casuality was Maharashtra Home minister and Deputy CM, Mr R R Patil. First , it was the disclosure by him that terrorists came to to India with an intention to kill 5000 people but total casualities were limited to few hundreds. Second statement he gave in front of media that was totally absurd" such small incidences always take place in big cities". This means that Mumbai attacks that took hundreds of lives and left several hundreds injured was a minor incidence.

Second casuality is going to be of Maharashtra Chief Minister Mr Vilas Deshmukh. He took alongwith a film producer and two of his sons to the attack site after the operation was over. Both media as well as public did not like this gesture of CM. Maharashtra CM has shown his insensitiveness by his words and behaviour towards the people and security personnels who lost their lives during the operation Cyclone. His fate is still undecided but he is likely to lose his post very shortly.

Third incidence relates to Central Home Minister Mr Shiv Raj Patil who sang the same song after each and every incidence of attack on people. He failed to win the confidence of people by his actions and only showed his incompetence.

Fourth mishap is related to Kerela CM Mr Achutanand. CM went to offer his condolences to father of Major Sandeep.  Major Sandeep lost his life fighting with terrorists. Sandeep's father refused to meet CM and Mr Achutanand could not control his emotions and made absurd comments. All the people including politicians, media person criticized Kerela CM but he got adament and refused to withdraw his comments. Let's see how he performs in next elections.

Mr Naqvi, a BJP politician could not control his outburst when people protested against the inactivity of politicians. He remarked that Indian ladies in western outfits with lipstic on lips are uselessly criticizing Indian politicians. His party detached itself from Mr Naqvi's comments and termed them as his personal views.

When entire country is shocked with events that took place in Mumbai, these politicians are finding it difficult to digest that Indian people who never opened their mouth are taking on politicians. Let's see what shape this public outburst takes in future.

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I am placing the comments and quotes of different political leaders, emminent public figures and public in general for record as public memory is considered to be short-lived. People forget everything after few months.

Bickering and ineptness of the politicians was at least partly responsible for the deaths of so many people in Terrorist's attack.

"These are the people who are responsible for the system," author and columnist Shoba De, a Mumbai resident, said on one talk show. "The city would not have suffered the way it has had it not been for the complete and total abrogation of duty and the kind of negligence we've seen, the kind of indifference we've seen."

"Our politicians fiddle as innocents die," the Times of India

Arun Shourie, a former BJP cabinet minister, said India's growing economic prowess had masked governance problems."I feel that this being mesmerised by growth rate figures is actually misleading, because the tree of the state is being hollowed by termites -- the political class," he told Reuters.

Columnist Vir Sanghvi wrote in the Hindustan Times: "We are fed up of politicians who use terrorism as an excuse to win votes. We are fed up of their incompetence. As far as we're concerned, they are all the same."

Maharashtra Home Minister R R Patil ruffled quite a few feathers on Saturday when he said "small incidents like this do happen in big cities" while referring to the Mumbai terror attack.

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister R. R. Patil's revelation  that the terrorists had planned to kill at least 5,000 people in the Mumbai attacks has stunned people and authorities alike while investigations are underway to get to the root of the conspiracy.

Achuthanandan retorted that "not even a dog would have visited the house'' had it not been the martyr's. "Is there a rule that the chief ministers of Kerala and Karnataka should visit together. Not even a dog would have looked that way had it not been Sandeep's house. Our attachment to Sandeep's family is special. Should not Mr Unnikrishnan, a soldier's father, understand this,'' the Kerala chief minister told a news channel.

Achuthanandan spoke before the Kerala Assembly today amidst immense pressure to quit for his comments. He said that his comments were misinterpreted and that he was quoted out of context. He also categorically refused to apologise for his insult to slain Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan’s family.

Indian Muslim clerics and commoners alike feel a prominent organisation's decision not to bury the slain Mumbai militants will send a strong message that the community wants to distance itself from those involved in terrorist activity in the name of Islam.

'Denying the burial of the terrorists on Indian soil is a strong enough message to show they are not a part of us,' Shamim Ali, 30, said, referring to the Muslim Council's decision.

Railway Minister Lalu Prasad  said Shivraj Patil's resignation as home minister over the Mumbai terrorist attack came "very late". Describing Patil's move, he cited a Bihari couplet -- ka varsha, jab krishi sukhani (what is the use of rainfall when the crop has already dried u