Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi was conspicuously absent from the farewell dinner hosted by party chief Sonia Gandhi at her 10, Janpath residence for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday, two days before the poll verdict. His decision to skip the dinner and go "out of town" left senior leaders of the ruling party — which is staring at perhaps its worst defeat ever — fumbling for answers.

Embarrassed Congress leaders said Rahul was out of town, but offered no reasons. Almost all the party's ministers and members of the Congress Working Committee attended the dinner.

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