Congress clueless in UP

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The Congress approach to the Uttar Pradesh elections has been baffling, to say the least. Three months before the elections, the young man who should be the General marshalling his forces on the electoral battleground, is nowhere to be seen. His larger-than-life Gandhi family persona is smaller than a dot in the state's crowded political landscape. Rahul Gandhi's politics is still about finding his way in the maze of by-lanes that crisscross a rather impoverished Amethi and Rae Bareilly. Apparently, he is meeting functionaries, confabulating with advisors - Congress never had a scarcity of omniscient armchair pundits - but except for a few rallies in Bareilly and Kanpur, the UP electorate has not yet been blessed with his darshan and personal appearances. There are fears now that the young politician is becoming a card that will never be unraveled from the inner folds of any untidy sleeve. The Congress....