A child of privilege, with infinitesimal experience of agro India, suddenly decided to take upon himself the burden of protecting farmers. Rahul Gandhi this week tasted bitter humble pie, but not before deepening his party’s crisis in UP.

The Congress is now desperate to re-establish itself in the politically volatile state of Uttar Pradesh. The party’s national general secretary ‘Yuvraj’ Rahul Gandhi has taken over the onus of steering his party to power in the coming Vidhan Sabha elections in 2012, and so he does not lose a single opportunity to play newer and newer forms of ridiculous politics.