Of Dare

NCP's D. Tripathi demanded yesterday that security provided to Bal Thackeray and Raj Thackeray be withdrawn.

Sanjay Raut -- Samana editor -- reacted by saying: We dare the government to do it. (Then see what we do.)

Aah. How Raut blissfully lacks sense of irony. What his dare implies? That Sena has manpower and gumption to create trouble if Thackeray's security is withdrawn. But it doesn't trust the same manpower -- its streetfighters -- to protect the old man. There you need police, eh?