"On Sunday, thousands of people assembled in Delhi to have a good time as three earnest but ungifted orators talked about the benefits of 'foreign direct investment' and the other things," Manu Joseph wrote in the Rendezvous blog, about the leaders of the Congress Party ---Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi. The rally "intended to be the war cry of the party," was an unusual choice by the Congress party to "rehabilitate its battered image as it prepares for the general elections," scheduled for 2014, Mr. Joseph wrote.