AAP's breaking news

The Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) daily press briefings and non-stop media coverage are beginning to take their toll. A few days ago, while the media was waiting for a briefing on the capital's power situation and impending audit of power companies, a little boy appeared from nowhere and started relating a story of how a ball with which he was playing had hit the windscreen of a car in which Delhi minister Rakhi Birla was travelling, leading to chaos in the area. Reporters immediately leapt on this potentially spicy development, forcing the organisers to remind them that the real purpose of the meeting was to educate them on Delhi's power problems and not on a petty incident.