Panaji: 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 chief Sonia Gandhi.
Rahul who was wearing a blue t-shirt, also posed for photographs and selfies with patrons 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," Fernandes said.
Once the bill was paid by him, Rahul offered to take a picture with her.
"He is too nice to be in the bad, bad world of politics," Fernandes told IANS.
Rahul 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 at a five-star resort in south Goa.
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