( MENAFN - IANS) New Delhi, May 19 (IANS) While Amethi and Raebareli, the long-held bastions of Gandhi family, gear up for polling on Monday, a spoof video on the Gandhis has taken the social media by storm. The video, with an apparent intention to mock the mother-son duo, comes days after Congress released an animated conversation of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi discussing the country's first family's age-old ties with two Lok Sabha constituencies of Uttar Pradesh -- Amethi and Raebareli. Notably, the two seats have been represented by either Gandhi family including Indira and Sonia Gandhi or the family loyalists since Independence.
It was only in 2019 Lok Sabha polls that Rahul Gandhi got voted out in Amethi by the 'giant slayer' Smriti Irani. The video featuring the look-alikes of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi shows the duo talking about Gandhi family's long legacy while taking caustic and satirical jibes at previous Prime Ministers, including Jawahar Lal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. As the duo look back at the country's political history, the characters impersonating as Sonia and Rahul discuss Jawaharlal Nehru's interview and pictures in Playboy magazine hogging the global headlines while rebuking the Emergency imposed under Indira Gandhi.
They are also seen lampooning the family over Bofors scandal and Bhopal Gas tragedy and how the 'mamas' like Ottavio Quattraochi (the middleman in Bofors deal) and Warren Anderson (the US businessmen who escaped the country after toxic gas leak) took th.