At the first sign of trouble, party workers huddle up and look towards the Nehru-Gandhi-Vadra family as saviour even though their recent history of dealing with crisis has been disastrous, to put it mildly.
Farooq who was the vice-president of the Morbi Municipality during the last term had an altercation with Rafiq and the other accused a few years ago during the panchayat elections.
Ashok Gehlot, Digvijaya Singh and Vilasrao Deshmukh of Congress in Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra sat and watched as Gujarat burned in 2002.