A welcome slap in the face

摘要

If He had any other surname, Rahul Gandhi, commonly mentioned as a prime minister-in-waiting, would surely be pondering a new career. His ill-starred record as a political campaigner reached a new low on March 6th, when he accepted the blame for his party's dreadful showing in assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh (up). Congress won only 28 of the 403 seats in India's largest state (population 200m), up just six from the 2007 poll.