Listening to Sonia Gandhi’s speech in Rajkot on Wednesday, which effectively kicked off the Congress election campaign in the State, one thing becomes glaringly obvious. For the party and its president, the riots of 2002 are no longer a ‘campaign issue’ to be milked for electoral gain in the way they have sought to do in the past. Instead, the discourse this time is all about ‘development’ and economic inequalities and such other high-minded themes.