Cow urine and soft Hindutva: Why Rahul skipped Cong's MP manifesto launch

At one place, the manifesto not only commits to helping set up gaushalas in each village panchayat but also promises to promote commercial sale of manure, and even gau mutra

On Friday, Congress President Rahul Gandhi was at hand in Dongargarh, the headquarters of Rajnandgaon district in poll-bound Chhattisgarh, to launch his party’s manifesto for the Assembly polls in the state. However, less than 24 hours later, Gandhi was conspicuous by his absence from Bhopal, where the Congress manifesto was released for neighbouring Madhya Pradesh.

Gandhi did not skip the manifesto launch at the state Congress office in Bhopal because of some preoccupation with his Chhattisgarh election campaign. Gandhi was invited but he chose to opt out, even as party’s top leaders in the state – Kamal Nath, Jyotiraditya Scindia