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STUDY IN CONTRAST

If micro-management is a barometer, Narendra Modi seems to be one up on the other national party in this in that time. Rahul Gandhi, by contrast, has skipped at least the past three consecutive meetings of his party’s CEC. His call for senior leaders to contest the Lok Sabha polls also seems to be boomeranging on him. Murmurs have been rising that he, and his sister Priyanka, contest from Uttar Pradesh, which the siblings seem unwilling to do. With mum Sonia Gandhi opting for the Rajya Sabha route, there will be no representation of the Gandhi family in the Lok Sabha from the state since 1999. How the mighty have fallen.

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