India’s former Congress Party President Rahul Gandhi was slammed online after his party shared an emotional video of a young girl shedding tears upon meeting him in person during the Unity March in Kerala on Wednesday.
In the clip, the girl was overcome with emotion after meeting him face-to-face, visibly laughing and crying.
However, not everyone was touched by the video, with some suspecting that it was "scripted". Netizens even labeled Gandhi a "flop actor" and a "film director" who has no future in movies in a nod to the suggestions.
"Movie performance part 2 ... flop hero .. flop actor," one Twitter user posted.
"I feel bad for the actor for being ignored," another wrote.
"What a performance! What an action, it's better he can work as a scriptwriter, actor, and director," a third added.
"Still feel he should take up acting after 2024," a fourth concluded, referring to the national polls at that time.
Gandhi is currently undertaking Congress's Unity March: a 3,570 km long on-foot campaign that began in Tamil Nadu state earlier this month.
It is the party's largest public drive since independence and is being organized to highlight socio-economic issues in the country, such as unemployment and inflation.