Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Lok Sabha member Rahul Gandhi came face to face looking in the eyes of each other at the Parliament on 31st of October at a memorial event to commemorate Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel‘s birth anniversary where representatives from all national parties gathered.
A photo captured by Indian Express photographer Anil Sharma illustrates the two top leaders, from the Bharatiya Janta Party (BJP) and the Congress, confronting eyeball to eyeball. It was almost like a bollywood movie in which the hero and the villain stand facing each other in the end of the movie in all fighting scenes. Though it is touch to comment who the here in in the political arena.
Both politicians had arrived at the venue to pay floral tributes to Sardar Patel statue on his 147th birth anniversary. However, none is interested in talking of the event.
The photo was clicked when PM Modi stood aside looking down but then Rahul Gandhi walked by, staring at the Prime Minister. Modi stared back at him in his eyes and the moment became epic as the photo was clicked. The picture is garnering sensation in Indian politics and has got the social media burning.