RAHUL GANDHI

took to Twitter to respond (indirectly) to the controversy generated by his remark, as reported by an Urdu newspaper, at a meeting of Muslim intellectuals that the Congress was a Muslim party. The paper’s headline was denied and described as inaccurate and misleading. Not that it stopped defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman and Prime Minister Narendra Modi making accusations. Rahul’s sentiments in his tweet seem noble. But given the conflation of his family with the party, such firstperson grandiosity was perhaps misjudged. Albeit comical.