Where is Congress leader Rahul Gandhi? This question surfaces often in view of his propensity to disappear when a crisis in the party needs his urgent attention

xAll speculation about a possible meeting between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and US President Donald Trump at the Asean summit was put to rest once it was known that the PM would not be travelling to Kuala Lumpur for the multilateral meet. The obvious conclusion was that Mr Modi did not wish to meet the US President against the backdrop of Mr Trump’s public declarations that he intervened to end the war between India and Pakistan and that India had told him it would cut back its oil supplies from Russia. The ongoing campaign for next month’s Bihar election came in handy for Mr Modi to skip the summit. But, a far more compelling

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