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Rahul Gandhi's speech had repercussions of sorts a few kilometres away at the Hero Mindmine Summit 2013, the topic for which was "Today's India: Economics or Politics?". The keynote speaker at the summit was Praful Patel, who said Gandhi's address would answer the question posed by the topic in the future. To which session moderator Sunil Kant Munjal sceptically countered: "Will it really make an impact?" Patel then beat a retreat saying he was only being politically correct. The sub-text: his Nationalist Congress Party is a key ally of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance after all, and elections aren't that far away.