to order beating up of student demonstrators or lawyers and protect corrupt and sadistic policemen, until the distant switches are put off someday, may be with the arrival of a new home minister. The present incumbent Buta Singh still remains staunchly behind her. Her minions are quite understandably happy with her. As a police official at Samepur-Badli station in north Delhi (from where the Congress(I) gathered demonstrators with the help of the police to launch an assault on the striking lawyers on February 17) said: "All of us are willing to die for Mrs Kiran Bedi".