Last year, in the run-up to the Madhya Pradesh state assembly elections, the former Chief Minister and senior Congress leader Kamal Nath during an interview proudly said that one shouldn’t forget that Rajiv Gandhi opened the locks of Babri Masjid. The statement though in the context of elections was read as an electoral strategy of the grand old party that was allegedly pandering to the Hindu sentiments, their decision to not attend the consecration ceremony in Ayodhya on January 22 has put it in the lurch.