When a leader sets the example, his supporters follow suit — and so it was with RPI party workers yesterday, who gave the agitation called by their party a miss, contributing to its grand failure. Perhaps they were just taking the cue from their party President Ramdas Athawale, who himself was conspicuously missing in action from the protest. Athawale’s party had declared the agitation to renew their quest to stake claim to the 12-acre Indu Mills plot, in order to erect a monument of Ambedkar.