Rahul Gandhi meets Gujarat Congress MLAs from behind a ‘barricade’, Twitter reacts

Earlier today, Gujarat Congress MLAs (whichever remain in Congress after the high drama Rajya Sabha elections earlier this month) went to meet the Congress Vice President Rahul Gandhi in Delhi:

https://twitter.com/OfficeOfRG/status/899536496570454017
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsRahul Gandhi posted the photographs of him meeting the MLAs, which showed that MLAs were standing behind a barricade while meeting him:

MLAs behind a metal barricade

Soon, social media reacted to this and compared Sonia and Rahul to a “queen” and a “prince”:

https://twitter.com/JapanPathak/status/899552199755288577

https://twitter.com/ShefVaidya/status/899568459003994113

https://twitter.com/Vishj05/status/899563059760422912
Others even pointed out the disrespect shown towards the elected representatives.

https://twitter.com/AYBPS/status/899549902602084352

https://twitter.com/muglikar_/status/899580849934311424
Some even pointed out how this elitism is not really the best way to behave when the grand old party is fighting for survival.

https://twitter.com/PawanDurani/status/899557739646472192
When the photograph got a lot of flak, Gujarat Congress President Bharat Solanki came to rescue and accused the BJP of spreading selective pictures, forgetting that the pictures were actually tweeted by Rahul Gandhi himself.

https://twitter.com/BharatSolankee/status/899584956761989124

OpIndia Staff: Staff reporter at OpIndia