Is Atal Behari Vajpayee a closet RSS supporter? That, at least, is the Opposition allegation. "He represents the covert side of the RSS; he adopts the latent posture of the RSS, leaving the potent agenda to the others," says Congress leader Kamal Nath. In fact, the combined Opposition's current attack on the prime minister is predicated on this view, aimed at driving a wedge between the BJP and its allies in the NDA. And there has been a history of what critics term Vajpayee's "compromises" with the Sangh: