Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi are in Goa on a 3-day "private visit". (File photo)
Highlights
- Rahul Gandhi and Sonia Gandhi lunched at a popular South Goa restaurant
- He also posed for pictures and selfies with customers at the restaurant
- The mother-son duo ate a quiet lunch with no security guards present
Holidaying in Goa after a turbulent winter session of Parliament, Congress President Rahul Gandhi surprised patrons at the popular Fisherman's Wharf restaurant in South Goa, where he arrived for a Sunday lunch with his mother and former party President Sonia Gandhi.
Rahul Gandhi, who was wearing a blue t-shirt, also posed for photographs and selfies with customers of the seafood restaurant, who had arrived for a quiet lunch on Sunday.
Goa-based dentist Rachna Fernandes, who was dining at the restaurant along with relatives, said that the mother-son politician duo were having a quiet lunch, with no security guards present.
"When I asked him for a photograph with him, he said he would oblige after he settles the bill," Rachna Fernandes said.
Once the bill was paid by him, Mr Gandhi offered to take a picture with her.
"He is too nice to be in the bad, bad world of politics," Rachna Fernandes told IANS.
Rahul Gandhi and his mother are on a three-day holiday in Goa.
According to a Goa Congress spokesperson, the party President and Sonia Gandhi are on a private visit and there are no official engagements scheduled during his stay in Goa at a five-star resort in South Goa.