Not a happy start for Azad

For most Congress leaders,there could not be a better way to start the new year than to get a chance to meet and greet Congress president Sonia Gandhi. But for Union Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad,the chance meeting on New Years Eve may not have been exactly what he wished for. On December 31,Azad was at the Delhi airport,waiting to catch a flight to Goa,when he met Sonia and her mother,who were also booked on the same flight. But Azad was in for some embarrassment as he found that while he was travelling in business class,Sonia and her mother had booked themselves in economy class. Meanwhile,unaware of their separate plans,a Congress leader who saw them together at the airport was trying to figure out whether Azad was hosting New Year celebrations for Sonia and her mother.