A video of the incident showed a man dressed in blue hugging and the kissing Rahul Gandhi on the cheek

Congress MP Rahul Gandhi was kissed on the cheek by a man in Kerala during a visit to his Wayanad constituency. A video of the incident shows Rahul, dressed in a grey T-shirt, sitting in the passenger seat of his car and greeting people out of the car window.

A few seconds into the video, a man in a blue shirt is seen shaking hands with Rahul Gandhi before lunging in, hugging Rahul and planting a kiss on the former Congress president's cheek.

The man is then seen being pulled away by a person who is out of the video's frame. Meanwhile, a nonchalant Rahul Gandhi continues greeting and shaking hands with the people around his car.

#WATCH A man kisses Congress MP Rahul Gandhi during his visit to Wayanad in Kerala. pic.twitter.com/9WQxWQrjV8 ANI (@ANI) August 28, 2019

Rahul Gandhi is visiting Wayanad to monitor flood relief work in his constituency. Wayanad was hit by several landslides during this year's monsoon and Rahul Gandhi has been visiting flood relief camps and reviewing rehabilitation work in the region.

This is not the first time Rahul Gandhi has found himself the subject of some public affection.

Earlier this year, Rahul Gandhi was kissed on the cheek by a woman in Gujarat, where he was campaigning for the Lok Sabha polls. That incident, coincidentally, enough took place on February 14, Valentine's Day.

In a similar incident from 2014, Rahul Gandhi was kissed on the cheek by a man at a West Bengal sweetshop that Gandhi visited after a political rally.