India, July 21 -- Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi's sit-in outside Prime Minister Narendra Modi's residence on Tuesday set off a chain of reactions running from the government to the AAP, to the BJP's IT cell chief, and a Congress snapback - even as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP), whose Monday march was at the nub of the escalation, said nothing on it at least in the immediate.

Rahul Gandhi's absence from the CJP protest - while he ran his own campaign on similar issues - was back at the centre of it all.

On Tuesday, Rahul Gandhi walked from Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge's residence towards PM residence, 7 Lok Kalyan Marg; he was joined by Kharge, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal, Karnataka CM DK Shivakumar and other party...