NEW DELHI, March 6 -- As jamborees go, the recent three-day 85th Plenary Session of the Indian National Congress (INC) at Raipur in Chhattisgarh was a great success. About 15,000 Congress leaders from all over the country reportedly went there to discuss and prepare the party's grand strategy for the coming years. The ruling party at the Centre allegedly did everything possible to scuttle the session. One of its chief ministers sent his police to arrest a Congress leader who was about to board the plane because he had a "slip of the tongue".

Nobody found anything objectionable, let alone 'arrest-able", when Prime Minister Narendra Modi referred to "Mohanlal", instead of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, while addressing an august gathering. ...