NEW DELHI, Feb. 3 -- There is a method in the ugly, no-holds-barred saffron assault on Kerala!

The other day, a nonentity made national headlines in the only way he could - by making an outrageous public statement in sync with the saffron party's sustained communal disinformation mission. Nitesh Rane, a junior minister in the BJP-led government in Maharashtra, summoned the gumption to label Kerala "a mini-Pakistan" and accuse Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka of getting elected from that State on the back of support from terrorists nee Muslims: "They have become MPs after taking terrorists with them." He went on to allege that a significant number of Hindus in Kerala were being converted to Islam through "love jihad." His diseased mind has even ...