Bhubaneswar, April 9 -- On the day the Supreme Court rejected the State Bank of India (SBI) plea seeking an extension of the deadline to submit the details of the electoral bond scheme to the Election Commission of India (ECI) till June 30, I got a call from a local television channel in the evening for a 'phono' on the release of the rules under the Citizens' (Amendment) Act (CAA), of all things! As a hard-nosed hack in his fourth decade in journalism, I could immediately make out that the Narendra Modi government had suddenly dusted off the long-forgotten file on CAA in a scarcely-veiled diversionary tactic to shift the attention away from the Big Story of the day {maybe even the month!): the landmark SC ruling on the electoral bond iss...