Missing in inaction

With Congress Vice-President Rahul Gandhi's 'leave' getting extended from a fortnight initially to more than a month now, not just Congress party members, people outside the party, too, seem to be getting worried about the Gandhi family scion. Posters have come up in Amethi, Gandhi's Lok Sabha constituency, declaring him "missing" and promising a reward to anyone who can offer information about his location. An embarrassed Congress has dismissed the posters as "the handiwork of our opponents, the BJP". But the posters have allegedly been put up by local people, who claim development work had stopped because of the MP's long absence.