Bright eyed and bushy tailed Rahul Gandhi during the budget speech. Yesterday, video footage of Rahul apparently dozing off in the Lok Sabha during a debate on price rise went viral on the social media.

The Congress vice president was seen in a television shot with closed eyes and his head tilting to the right.

The shot, picked up from Lok Sabha TV, went viral on social media accompanied by carping comments.

While Congress promptly denied that Rahul was sleeping, Bharatiya Janata Party taunted it by saying this is what the party was doing on price rise for the last 10 years."It is not true. I totally and categorically deny all aspersions,' Congress spokesman Abhishek Singhvi said lamenting that the matter has been sensationalised and wondered whether it behoves to raise such issues.He said that for the last seven weeks the government has played "petty and vindictive' politics.