'I am the original': PM Modi lookalike hits campaign trail
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Why Gandhi lookalike changed?
In 2014, Prashant Sethi lapped up being a dead ringer for Rahul Gandhi, the scion of the country's Nehru-Gandhi political dynasty and Modi's main challenger in both the 2014 and 2019 elections.
Sethi, who sells fried chicken in Surat in the western state of Gujarat, was reportedly offered a film role too.
But now the Modi supporter has had enough. He has transformed his look: putting on weight, growing a beard and changing his hairstyle -- all to look different from Gandhi.
"Me and my family have been supporters of the BJP since the beginning. But because of my look I was always teased," Sethi told AFP.
"People had started calling me pappu," he said, referring to a common nickname -- used by Gandhi's detractors -- for slightly stupid individuals.
"So I had to change my look," he said.
Sethi, who sells fried chicken in Surat in the western state of Gujarat, was reportedly offered a film role too.
But now the Modi supporter has had enough. He has transformed his look: putting on weight, growing a beard and changing his hairstyle -- all to look different from Gandhi.
"Me and my family have been supporters of the BJP since the beginning. But because of my look I was always teased," Sethi told AFP.
"People had started calling me pappu," he said, referring to a common nickname -- used by Gandhi's detractors -- for slightly stupid individuals.
"So I had to change my look," he said.