Old order changeth: How Rahul Gandhi is changing the Congress organisation

Recent appointments have also shown how a temporary demotion is unlikely to be the end of the road for a leader in the party

C P Joshi, the Congress leader from Rajasthan, served as the general secretary in-charge of all the northeastern states, including Nagaland for over two years. 

To illustrate how incongruous such appointments were, Congress workers from northeast recount how Joshi, a vegetarian from the other end of India, landed in Kohima and demanded his kind of vegetarian food. 

Local Congress leaders struggled to find the kind of vegetarian food Joshi might like and discovered it in the home of a local Marwari businessman. Joshi was happy, but the local Congress leadership found a bone to pick with their central leadership’s choice.