Veteran actor Rishi Kapoor is a happy man. A week after he tweeted his displeasure at the naming of several of the country's assets after members of the Gandhi family, Congress workers named a public toilet in Allahabad after him. A group of Congress workers gathered at Shivaji Park and placed a board displaying Kapoor's name outside a Sulabh Shauchalaya toilet. When told about the Allahabad toilet, Kapoor said he was thrilled because it would be of "some use to someone" while the Congress loyalists "are of no use to anyone". Kapoor said he was proud, as a clean India was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's pet project.
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