Down to earth

Winds of change are blowing in the Congress. Leaders of the Grand Old Party, who till the other day never tired of eulogising godmen and of fretting over their adversaries performing malevolent yagnas, are today acquiring a modern outlook. Hear what a party veteran had to say to scribes who thought they could rest in peace as there would be no major party event or even a Cabinet reshuffle until October 10 given that shraddha paksha had started from September 25. “What times are you living in? Times have changed. You worship ancestors during shraddha paksha. Why should it be inauspicious?” asked the AICC general secretary tipped to get a prominent berth in the Union Cabinet if there are no mid-term polls.