Loo and behold – the celeb toilets!

Rishi Kapoor, actor and now a bona fide Twitter celebrity, asked why Delhi’s airport is named after Indira Gandhi and not, among others, him. While he has not got exactly what he had asked for (in jest, no doubt), Congress workers have ‘christened’ a toilet in Allahabad after him.

Workers of India’s Grand Old Party hung a board with Kapoor’s name outside a Sulabh Shauchalaya in Allahabad’s Shivaji Park area. While the renaming is not official, this act was to protest against Kapoor’s tweets questioning the naming of places after members of the Nehru-Gandhi family. In a series of tweets that spanned three days, the actor asked why assets named after the Gandhis should not be changed and came up with a bunch of alternatives.

Two days later, Kapoor shared an infographic claiming that 64 prominent places in the national capital are named after members of the Nehru-Gandhi dynasty.

While some of the points the actor makes are fair enough, it is ironic that, while seemingly opposing nepotism in naming places, Kapoor mentions his late father as example of someone who, in the eyes of the people, has contributed more to society than politicians.

Kapoor is not the first public figure whose name has been associated with a toilet. While the Chinese toilet company Shenzhen Trump Industrial is not named after the presumptive Republican nominee for the US Presidential elections, American actor Dustin Hoffman actually got a toilet named after him. Stephen Colbert almost almost got a restroom in space after the comedian got the most votes for a new room of theInternational Space Station. Eventually, NASA gave him a treadmill.

But as far as backhanded compliments go, this would have been hard to top. Unfortunately, the proposal to rename a sewage treatment plant in San Fransisco after George W Bush was opposed by 69 percent of the voters.