Rahul Gandhi's Shah Bano moment in UP

Uttar Pradesh will determine Rahul Gandhi's political future. Anything less than 80 assembly seats in a state where Rahul has invested so much personal political capital could disrupt the carefully choreographed dynastic succession in the Congress ahead of the 2014 Lok Sabha poll. The party's cynical vacillation over Salman Rushdie's aborted visit to Jaipur and Priyanka Gandhi's decision to campaign for Rahul show how seriously the Congress takes the UP elections.

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