A new address, and then a reshaped house: Cong eyes organisational revamp

"Expect a major reshuffle in Maharashtra and Rajasthan after 27 January," said a top Congress leader

It was 9.15 pm on Thursday, December 26. The Congress brass, congregated at Belagavi, Karnataka, to observe the centenary of the Congress session in Belgaum in 1924 Mahatma Gandhi presided over (the only occasion when the Mahatma became party president), was just trooping in to dinner when Rahul Gandhi got a call. By 9.50 pm, the news of the death of Manmohan Singh, former prime minister, was public, all programmes were cancelled, and a blanket of gloom had descended on the Bharat Gandhi shamiana, which was converted into a memorial to Singh. 

Though the Belagavi meeting might not have achieved