New crisis or new book?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 20/06/2016

If there has been a rash of recent headlines on the crisis in the Congress Party, as well as (contradictorily enough) the promise of Rahul Gandhi, it is because Rajya Sabha MP Jairam Ramesh has written a book. Not on the crisis in the Congress or on the promise of Rahul G, but on the bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh. Evidently Ramesh is giving interviews on account of the book, but the journos ask him about the Congress. Be it IANS, or Barkha Dutt or Rajdeep Sardesai. That explains the "Congress in deep crisis" headlines.

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