In a short while, Union Minister of State for Culture Dr Mahesh Sharma has not only earned the trust of the Prime Minister by tending to his Varansai constituency, but has also emerged as the fire-fighter of the party on the cultural and social fronts. A doctor by profession, he rattles secularist liberals and make them cry wolf so many times that they might have begun to lose whatever little credibility they have had. Take, for instance, the case of Bisara village in Dadri where a Muslim was murdered. By describing the incident as an accident, he apparently punctured the media-sponsored Kangaroo court verdict against the PM and the BJP. Clearly there is no love lost between Dr Sharma and the secular brigade. It intensified when he forced Dr Mahesh Rangarajan to resign from the post of director of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), an appointment that was clearly done in haste in the last days of the UPA government last year. The move was clearly seen by one particular executive committee member as a signal to quit in the footstep of the director. He's not resigned yet, but continues to spew venom against Dr Sharma and the PM. Though NMML is funded by taxpayers, it is said to have become over the years a private club of the Nehru clan and its propagandists drawn from a spectrum of left, secular, liberal, and democratic intellectuals.