In the line of fire

Taking a dig at Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav and Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi for the poor showing of the Samajwadi Party-Congress alliance in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls, someone did a bit of photo editing and put up a picture of the two leaders holding placards, a la Gurmehar Kaur, on a social media platform. Every placard carried an apology: “I am sorry dad!” read Akhilesh Yadav’s placard (purportedly apologising to his father and SP leader Mulayam Singh Yadav for sidelining him). Gandhi’s placard said, “I am sorry mom!” In another doctored shot, Yadav Jr was seen holding a placard that said, “Modi didn’t defeat me. He did”, with an arrow pointing towards Gandhi.