 "The Congress' Belagavi meeting put on record the promise that the party organisation would go through an extensive revamp. (Photo: PTI)")
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
