Watch: Siddaramaiah’s Imitation of Modi Has Crowd in Splits
“Acche din aayega....Kab aayega? Kisko aayega?” the Karnataka Chief Minister quipped.
“Sab ka saath, sab ka vikas,” rumbles the leader in a familiar basso voice.
If you’re not looking at the video, you would, of course, assume who the leader is – who else but Prime Minister Narendra Modi, right?
Wrong.
The man is Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah. He imitated Modi to loud applause at a public event in Chikkodi recently, and the trolling is now breaking the internet.
So, he picked up another Modi trademark, exclaiming, “Acche din aayega!”.
He then asked “Kab aayega? Kisko aayega?... Have acche din come for any of you?”. This was followed by waves of laughter and applause.
To top this off, the Chief Minister raised the Prime Minister’s famous promise that he would bring back all the black money stashed abroad and deposit Rs 15 lakh in every Indian’s bank account within 100 days of coming to power.
“Did he put even 15 paise in your account?” Siddaramaiah asked. There have been no ‘sab ka vikaas’, no ‘acche din’, no Rs 15-lakh, he asserted.
And the mimicry was on point, so much so that it took us a minute to realise it was Siddaramaiah speaking, and not Modi!
Coming up Next: Assembly Polls
With Karnataka set to go to the polls in May next year, both the Congress and the BJP have already began raising the campaign pitch.
For the BJP, which has successfully established its political dominance in the north, Karnataka offers the promise to a gateway to the south. The Congress, on the other hand, is looking to retain one of the few major states where it has successfully remained in power.
The BJP is currently undertaking a massive 75-day campaign tour across Karnataka. Called the Nava Karnataka Nirmana Parivarthana yatra, it was launched from Bengaluru on November 2 by BJP national president Amit Shah, and will cover all 224 constituencies in the state before returning to the capital on January 28.
CM Siddaramaiah, meanwhile, has asked all officials to concentrate on the government’s welfare-oriented policies, including clearing government land encroachment, housing for SC, ST and OBC communities, Indira Canteens, ration card distribution, land sanctioning, and distribution of land rights to the downtrodden, among others.
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