Late as usual

As the controversy over Rahul Gandhi’s visit to Aspen, Colarado, refused to die with the Bharatiya Janata Party working overtime to keep the fires raging, the Congress vice-president’s office tweeted a picture of Gandhi at the conference with the caption, “Very interesting discussions on the global economy and the disruptive power of technology at the conference in Aspen”. Within minutes, former Union minister Milind Deora, part of Gandhi’s inner circle, tweeted two pictures of Gandhi and himself at the conference of “new media and international affairs” with former British foreign secretary David Miliband and Iceland’s President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson. The only glitch: the party got into the damage control mode a few days too late.