At the lunch hosted by Sonia Gandhi, Congress strategists made sure that Mulayam and Mayawati don’t come face-to-face. Maybe that is the reason both leaders were made to have different entries at the Ashok Hotel in New Delhi. Mayawati was asked to sit at Sonia’s table, and Mulayam with the prime minister. Satish Mishra also sat with the PM. On the other hand, Prof Ram Gopal was supposed to sit with Rahul Gandhi but he hadn’t returned from Etawah. So his lunch wasn’t really complete.