Chatterbox: Back story to SC judges' press conference; Rahul's foreign trip

Rahul Gandhi is planning overseas trips to other countries in the Middle East, Singapore Canada and Europe

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Here’s the back story to the first ever public press conference held by four Supreme Court judges. How did the political parties react? We know that CPI leader D Raja called on Justice Chelameshwar. The Congress president summoned the party’s legal brain trust—P Chidambaram, Salman Khurshid, Kapil Sibal, Manish Tewari and Vivek Tankha. Abhishek Manu Singhvi was in Mumbai at the time. It looked for a political-legal response. The BJP went in for a more political response with the Narendra Modi-Amit Shah team consulting mainly one lawyer — and a key troubleshooter — Arun Jaitley. It was later Attorney