Congress' hate meet

How much Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee chief J P Agarwal and Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit detest each other was there for all to see during the plenary session of the Congress at Burari in New Delhi. Catering arrangements were changed overnight, with one MLA handling it one day and another the next. Then, during her thanksgiving address, Dikshit said: “We know some of you had to go hungry. I apologise for this.” Agarwal’s supporters have vowed to avenge the insult. The differences between the two go back to the Lok Sabha elections. They started when Dikshit’s son Sandeep Dikshit’s constituency, East Delhi, was delimited. The urbanised part fell in one part and the peri-urban in another. Dikshit was given the area dominated by housing cooperative societies, which made campaigning easier, and the hard part of the constituency went to Agarwal. Moreover, in the middle of the campaign, water and electricity to the constituency was stopped on some specious ground. Agarwal’s supporters are counting their grudges and there may be an explosion. Watch this space.