Apart from making some consolatory gestures, including the Prime Minister and Cong president, receiving the body of 23 -year -old Damini at the airport. The Government has taken absolutely no action on the Delhi gangrape incident. Leave alone punishing the police officers, it has not even called a special session of the Parliament. The question is why the government is ignoring the protestors. Is it scared that responding to them will weaken its power or does remaining unaccountable and aloof serve its purpose in restraining the people's new-found assertiveness on the street.

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