Party spokespersons Ajit Jogi and Girija Vyas said Ministers like George Fernandes and Uma Bharati have said they were opposed to the Bill, and this was against the Cabinet's decision. Ministers must speak in one voice, the spokespersons added. ``The Congress does not consider this a healthy trend for democracy and if any minister had any difference of opinion with the government's policy, he or she should quit the Cabinet,'' Jogi said.

He added that contradictions abounded between the BJP and its partners and even within the party over the Insurance Bill. BJP President Kushabhau Thakre had gone on record against the Bill and then backed out from his statement, indicating the extent of the infighting in the BJP on this issue, theCongress said.

The Congress also continued to play cool on its official stance on the Bill, saying it would react when the Bill was formulated and put forward by the Government. The party had supported the move to open up the Insurance Sector in its manifesto, but is now waiting to see how the BJP formulates the contents of the Bill before making its stance clear.

Meanwhile, the Congress has ridiculed the regret expressed by Union Home Minister L K Advani six years after the Babri Masjid demolition, saying it came after the BJP were rejected by the people in the recent round of Assembly elections. ``The realisation that it should not have happened has come to them too late and only after their defeat,'' Girija Vyas said.

However, people cannot forget that the BJP, RSS, VHP and Bajrang Dal had cheated the Constitution and Parliament when they demolished the Babri Masjid, she added.

Vyas also referred to the World Bank report which had adversely commented on the Indian economy's performance. She saidthe GDP growth rate, which used to be 7.5 per cent over the last three years, had come down to five per cent now. Industrial and agricultural growth had also declined, indicating that the GDP growth might dip to three per cent, she said. Lack of credibility and implementation of the right policies at the right time had led to the decline, she added.