Karnataka elections: Siddaramaiah praises PM Modi during Congress rally

The Karnataka elections are still in its last leg and the leaders are still going on with their rallies and speeches.

In one such rally, the Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

On Tuesday Siddaramaiah said that every vote that is cast in PM Modi’s name is a vote that is cast for him (Siddaramaiah). The CM made this mistake twice while campaigning for the party candidate in Mandya, about 100 km from Bengaluru.

“If road work has happened, concrete roads, drainage, drinking water facilities are there, if houses have been constructed, it is all because of Narendra Modi and our government,” Siddaramaiah said.

Siddaramaiah was actually referring to Congress MLA Narendra Swamy while campaigning at Malavalli in Mandya district.

Luckily those standing beside the CM  caught his mistake and pointed it out. The Chief Minister corrected himself and said “sorry Narendra Swamy” as the crowd cheered.

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“Narendra is important. Here he is Swamy, he (PM) Modi is there for Gujarat. Narendra Modi is false, Narendra Swamy is true,” he further said, laughing it off.

He repeated his mistake a second time; “Everyone should understand that every single vote cast for Narendra Modi, is like casting for me….” he said and corrected himself after the intervention of those standing next to him, including Swamy.

This faux pas comes amid the verbal war between the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Chief Minister Siddaramaiah.

Karnataka’s CM is not the only one to make such a mistake.

BJP President Amit Shah too made a faux pas, by calling Yeddyurappa ‘corrupt’.

“Recently a retired Supreme Court judge said if there was ever a competition of the most corrupt government then the Yeddyurappa government is number one…,” he said while rattling off allegations against Siddaramaiah government at a meeting in Karnataka’s Davanagere

Although he quickly corrected himself, the blooper didn’t check the rapid circulation of the video clip on social media, mostly by Congress supporters.