Some leaders said, he could be running out of time, because he had to go and meet mining workers in another interactive event, a hallmark of Rahul's outreach programme.
But some of the Congress leaders said that it could be that Rahul Gandhi had encountered a mental block, meaning he was uninterested in giving long speeches.
The speech that Rahul Gandhi ultimately gave in a span of six minutes centred round exhorting party workers to stand up against corruption by BJP leaders. Nowhere did he raise issues relating to Lok Sabha elections.
