Rebel Congress leader Kuldeep Bishnoi is a normal fixture on the bench where most of younger Congress MPs sit. He headed for the same place after entering the House on Thursday, but sat down a little distance from the pack. Obviously, his rebellion against Sonia Gandhi has made him the odd-man out on the treasury benches. However, noticing him, Jitin Prasad gestured him to come closer. A little taken aback, Kuldeep got up and walked up to Jitin, Sachin Pilot and Milin Deora. They shook hands and were huddled together thereafter.Missing SpeakerOut to corner the Left after the Nandigram incidents, the NDA came to the Lok Sabha all charged up. In the process, some NDA members did not know where to draw a line. Since proceedings were being conducted by Charanjit Singh Atwal from the very beginning, Prakash Vishwanath Paranjpe of Shiv Sena and Karuna Shukla of BJP kept shouting through the din: Adhyaksh mahoday kahan hain and Adhyaksh mahoday ko bulao. They obviously wanted the Speaker to watch their action live.The other bahuAs the Lok Sabha went through repeated adjournments, the majority of the members spent long interludes between brief meetings chatting with their colleagues. Sonia remained busy talking with External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, Railways Minister Lalu Prasad and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi. The other “bahu” of the dynasty, Maneka Gandhi, stood in the aisle on the other side, holding forth to half-a-dozen BJP MPs.
