It was a Valentine’s Day surprise for India’s Congress president Rahul Gandhi. The Congress chief, who was in Gujarat’s Valsad on Thursday for a rally, was kissed on the stage by a woman. The video of the moment has gone viral on social media.

Watch the video here:

#WATCH A woman kisses Congress President Rahul Gandhi during a rally in Valsad, #Gujarat pic.twitter.com/RqIviTAvZ9

— ANI (@ANI) February 14, 2019

Rahul Gandhi has been holding rallies across the country in the run-up to Lok Sabha elections 2019. Earlier in the day, while responding to PM Narendra Modi’s ‘gale panda’ jibe, the Congress president said that hatred can only be defeated by love. Speaking at the All India Congress Seva Dal meeting in Alwar, Rajasthan, Gandhi said he hugged the PM in Parliament despite the fact that he ‘insults’ him, his family and the Congress party.

‘Hatred can be defeated only by love. He has hatred and the love in me countered that hatred,’ Gandhi said.

‘Mein pehli baar yahan aaya, bahut si cheezein jaanne ko mili. Pehli baar mujhe pata chala ki gale milne aur gale padne mein kya antar hai. Pehli baar dekh raha hun ki sadan mein aankhon se gustakhiyaan hoti hain (I came to this House for the first time and learnt a lot of new things. I realised for the first time the difference between a hug and a forced hug),’ PM Modi had said in Parliament yesterday, while hitting out at Rahul Gandhi.