While Congress President Rahul Gandhi mulls resigning from his post -- reports say he would rather focus on leading his party in Parliament -- here's some gratuitous advice about the next step forward -- taking a holiday. True, this is fraught with danger because he may be ridiculed for vacationing and if he goes abroad on holiday, it reinforces Prime Minister Narendra Modi's image of industry, undeserved because the evidence from the past five years is that the PM is not one to apply his mind to the nation's problems and instead prefers event management.

Yet if anyone has worked as hard as Modi during the past three months traversing the country, it's Rahul. The regional leaders deliberately stuck to their turf to focus on one-on-one contests against the BJP. Even if many were still not prepared to accept Rahul as PM, they no longer derided him.