The MPYC members from all Maharashtra will congregate at Azad Maidan. From there a delegation will drive to Raj Bhavan to present a memorandum to Governor Dr P C Alexander.

Sources say that though the agitation for the dismissal of the State Government is being taken to the streets, it is being done under strict guidelines. For example, they are under warning, by their leaders and others, not to raise the temperature against Bal Thackeray beyond a limit.The line taken is part of a well-planned strategy say sources. Senior Congress leaders prefer that the party bear up with criticism that they are rather low key in their reaction to the Sena-BJP government's stand on the report, than precipitate a state of violence by a militantprogramme that might blow up in their faces.

While All India Congress Committee members are keen to discover if the Sena and Thackeray might consolidate their Hindutva vote bank on the basis of the report, those in Maharashtra are reacting to intelligence reports that the party is looking for an opportunity to turn any street fights by the Congress or the Samajwadi Party to its own advantage.

There is a precedent, they believe: a peaceful demonstration ordered by the Brihanmumbai Regional Congress Committee against the staging of Mee Nathuram Godse Boltoy last month turned violent within seconds. Congress workers found themselves at the end of a lathi-charge though they were hard put to discover at what point they might have provoked the police into such precipitate action. The provocation, according to Brihanmumbai Pradesh Youth Congress (BPYC) president Charan Singh Sapra, had come entirely from Shiv Sainiks gathered at the same spot for a counter-demonstration.

A similar demonstration vis-a-vis theSrikrishna findings, though, might not be confined to just a lathi-charge, senior Congressmen believe. ``We have intelligence reports that they (read Sena) have been searching for an opportunity to derail our programmes. The disruption of Congress president Sonia Gandhi's first visit to Mumbai was a part of their strategy. When they could not succeed, some infiltrators picked a fight with media personnel to provoke a crisis,'' an AICC general secretary told The Indian Express.

However, while some senior Congress leaders might themselves have been responsible for precipitating last Sunday's crisis, the fear of certain anti-social elements on the alert to pounce on Congress pickets appears to be real among partymen. With the BJP already divided on its stand vis-a-vis the Sena, senior Congressmen have been informed of the large cache of arms that was allegedly collected by the police from typical troublespots during their sweep prior to the tabling of the Srikrishna Commission's report in theMaharashtra Legislature, according to a very senior leader.

That has been enough to rein in both the Congress and the SP. So the SP, which had earlier planned a more intensive campaign against the Sena-BJP, chose to go the Congress's pacifist way by beating its ally in Maharashtra to the Bombay High Court where SP general secretary Tushar Gandhi has filed a Public Interest Litigation to force the Sena-BJP's hands. The Congress would prefer something on similar lines. Hence, apart from Sonia's planned sit-in at Rajghat and a AICC panel to study the report, the Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee as well has set up its own cell to study the report and suggest a viable course of action.

Meanwhile, according to MPYC president Anees Ahemd, only a core group of the MPYC and BPYC executives will ``march'' -- or rather drive -- to Raj Bhavan tomorrow. The rest might disperse without much ado after a brief meeting at Azad maidan. No demos on the way. ``The Youth Congress is not running scared. But the idea isnot to fall in the Sena-BJP trap,'' he says. And, instead of effigies of personalities, only copies of the government's Action Taken Report will be set on fire, he adds.