Another Narendra Modi goof-up: PM's speech from Lal Darwaja!

It seems that the pressure of the upcoming Lok Sabha elections is getting the better of chief minister Narendra Modi. Of late, he has been making gaffes that one would usually not associate with a powerful orator like the BJP’s prime ministerial candidate.

In Bangalore on Sunday, Modi said that the PM’s address to the nation on August 15 was delivered from Lal Darwaja, while he should have said Lal Quila (Red Fort).

“The central government had issued an advisory to media about the prime minister’s August 15 speech from Lal Darwaja. The advisory was so that the media does not compare the PM’s speech with that of Modi, who is just a chief minister of a state,” Modi said in Bangalore Sunday.

The faux pas over Lal Darwaja and Lal Quila by the chief minister comes just a few days after his goof-up between Jan Sangh founder Shyama Prasad Mookerji and revolutionary Shyamaji Krishna Verma.    

“Shyama Prasad Mookerjee was a revolutionist. He died in 1930. His last wish was that his ashes be brought to India after independence. The Congress governments didn’t get them back.

It was I who got the ashes back to India in 2003,” Modi had said in Kheda recently while confusing Shyama Prasad Mookerjee with Shyamaji Krishna Verma. He had apologised for the error after it was brought to his notice, and clarified that he meant Shyamaji Krishna Verma.