Rahul’s absence from the most crucial budget session By Deepak Parvatiyar March 2, 2015 The Gandhis and their Houdini’s escape acts cease to surprise. Remember the Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s repeated sudden disappearances from the country in 2011-12 when her party was at the helm at the Centre? The reason behind her foreign tour and destination were wrapped in secrecy while the official Congress version was that she was undergoing treatment (for some mysterious ailment). The Congress scion Rahul has now done a Sonia! His disappearance has been as mysterious as his mother’s and yet again, when the Congress is not even a recognised Opposition party in Parliament, no one has any inkling of his whereabouts. Some suggest he is in the Himalayas, meditating. Some others suggest he is in Bangkok, holidaying. Yet a few even suggest that the Congress Vice President is in Europe for Vipassana! Why are foreign trips of the Gandhis shrouded in secrecy? The question
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