Is 'Brazilian Model' Larissa Contemplating Any Legal Action Against Rahul Gandhi? | EXCLUSIVE

A political controversy erupted recently after the image of a Brazilian woman went viral following Congress leader Rahul Gandhi's "vote chori" allegations in a press conference. Speaking exclusively to

Times Now, Brazilian journalist Luiz Fernando Nascimento shared details about the woman's true identity, which had sparked widespread speculation in India.When asked by Times Now Group Editor-in-Chief Navika Kumar, about who Larissa was after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi showed a picture of her in a press conference, the journalist explained, "So Larissa is a hairdresser. She works in a beauty saloon in Belo Horizonte. It's the capital of Minas Gerais. Her photo appeared in the Congress Party Live. And it's easier for us to search for a Brazilian because we know Portuguese and we can see the message of her photo. Yesterday, I did some reverse image search. And I tracked her by analyzing the author of the photo Facebook.So I reached out to her on Instagram. And I reached her by contacting her by the saloon.When asked about her reaction when Rahul Gandhi made her photo the subject of his presentation, he replied, "At first, she was laughing because she didn't understand the picture. Like, she was, oh, my photo is being used in India. And she actually made videos laughing about it because all the scene was comic for her."

The journalist also shared if she was contemplating any legal action against Rahul Gandhi or anyone over her picture being misused. "Yeah, she said to me she was calling her lawyers to see what legal actions she can be doing. But she never said any name or any entity specifically. She just said that she was trying to delete the photo of all the internet and to see if the misuse of her image is stopped," he said.The photo unexpectedly found itself at the centre of a political controversy after Rahul Gandhi used it to allege large-scale voter fraud, claiming the same image appeared on multiple voter IDs in Haryana. Thousands of kilometres away, Ferrero suddenly became a trending topic on Indian social media, with many users mistakenly identifying him as the woman in the photograph.