Rep Mulling

So after 17 years the Liberhan Commission finally submitted its report today. I'm not going to write about the report itself as to me the real issue here is why it always take so long for these sort of reports to be tabled. For instance it took a decade an a half for the Srikrishna Comission report to be opened.

It pretty much depends on which party is currently at the center. There is no way that the Liberhan report would have ever been allowed to be submitted much less tabled at parliament if a NDA coalition was in power. Just like the Justice Srikrishna report was rejected by the BJP/Shiv Sena combine in Maharashtra in 1999.

Also, these reports are very rarely revealed, in complete, to the general public - and revealing only half the information in a report could be an extremely dangerous thing.

A question - Is it worth having a report as touchy as this (and especially something like the Justice Srikrishna report), tabled so late? Maybe all it will do is open old wounds.