It is 4:30 on Sunday 23 December 2012, protests continue at India Gate and Jantar Mantar in Delhi. It seems this is slowly turning into India's Tiananmen moment with the students demanding that the PM make a statement and give them assurance that justice will be done. Like in the past, the ruling elite have allowed the situation to go out of control through inaction and routine unsympathetic statements and the police have further provoked the students by firing tear gas shells. Nothing would have happened if the students had been allowed to march to Vijay Chowk and stage a peaceful sit in protest. To now complain that lumpen elements are infiltrating the protest movement is stupid; the longer the government keeps mum the angrier the people will get and then violence will result. 

Significantly, no opposition leader has come out to pacify the protesters or offered advice to the government, they are simply watching the fun; such is the deep chasm between the ruling party and the opposition. What a sad day for India!!