Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, who had on Friday demanded that Lokpal should be made a constitutional body like Election Commission, was conspicuous by his absence on Saturday when both Houses of Parliament extensively debated on the three demands put forward by Gandhian Anna Hazare for making the anti-graft institution Lokpal more effective. And his absence was noted by everyone especially with the leader of the opposition in the Lok Sabha Sushma Swaraj making a dig at him for his intervention during the Question Hour and wondered whether it was an address to the Nation which was aimed to "pour cold water on statesmanship of Prime Minister Manmohan Singh."