Like the mythological Janus, Prime Minister A.B. Vajpayee has for decades sported two public faces—one of a moderate for the benefit of the media and his secular allies, and the second of a hardcore swayamsevak to keep the Sangh parivar happy. At the BJP conclave in Goa, the mask slipped. The commitment to "rajdharma" or justice for all, expounded upon barely two weeks ago in Ahmedabad, was a fairly distant memory in Panaji. The charge of the Opposition parties and even some anti-Vajpayee politicians within the parivar—like that of party ideologue Govindacharya—that the prime minister was just a liberal mask for a larger saffron agenda and a cover for the less palatable activities of the Sangh parivar organs seemed to ring true.