On October 27 Rahul Gandhi became an inadvertent casualty of the blast in the Patna. In what was billed as a speech versus speech story by most news channels, one speech was conspicuous by its absence. The only channels that seemed to make an effort to replay it, and more than once, were the two NDTV channels. Before the blast happened CNN IBN had been promising a programme analysing his rallies. That went out of the window.