Where is the deputy?

A press briefing organised by the agriculture ministry to celebrate two years of the National Democratic Alliance government has become a talking point because of the absence of the minister’s deputies. While one of the deputy ministers was engaged in assisting a candidate assigned by the Bharatiya Janata Party to file his Rajya Sabha nomination, not much is known about the whereabouts of the other minister. This elicited several queries from the people present at the event.