INDIA SUMMARIZED

The much-awaited  Rahul Gandhi  rally finally happened just hours before the official close of the first phase of campaigning in Gujarat. Amid all the hype and curiosity about how he will take on  Narendra Modi , particularly a day after a Congress spokesman in New Delhi formally announced that Rahul will lead the party in the 2014 Lok Sabha campaign, the Gandhi family scion sought to appropriate the legacy of Mahatma Gandhi for himself. Rahul managed to take some potshots at the Gujarat chief minister, albeit without taking his name – which is part of the party’s unstated strategy for these polls. But his references to the Mahatma appeared to be more philosophical in nature than substandered. “Whenever I am in faced with a problem, I read Gandhi’s books and get a solution,” Rahul said. He conceded that “many people” were asking “how relevant was Mahatma Gandhi in today’s politics” but he answered it this way: “Let me tell you, if I have a Guru in politics, that is M...