Missing in action

The most trending hashtag on microblogging site Twitter on Monday evening was #maabetafarar (mother and son get away), initially started to highlight how Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son and party Vice-President Rahul Gandhi were not present at Rajpath on Sunday to mark the International Yoga Day, led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Twitter users, at least those with sympathies with the Sangh Parivar, speculated that the mother and son duo was possibly in London or even Venice. But the campaign backfired when users, possibly Congress sympathisers, hit back by claiming Maneka Gandhi and son Varun Gandhi, both of whom are Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MPs, were also not seen at Rajpath, while Rajasthan's BJP Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje and her MP son Dushyant Singh had managed to 'get away' in more ways than one.