Congress Gaffes Before 2023 Karnataka Assembly Election

Last Updated on June 12, 2023

Google’s Definition:

gaffe
noun
an unintentional act or remark causing embarrassment to its originator; a blunder.
“in my first few months at work, I made some real gaffes”

My staff’s biggest fear was that I’d make a “gaffe,” the expression used by the press to describe any maladroit phrase by a candidate that reveals ignorance, carelessness, fuzzy thinking, insensitivity, malice, boorishness, falsehood, or hypocrisy – or is simply deemed to veer sufficiently far from the conventional wisdom to make said candidate vulnerable to attack

Barack Obama, A Promised Land (2020)

Following is a curated list of embedded youtube videos of gaffes committed by Congress politicians and Congress itself with its manifesto. These were made just a few weeks before the elections.

Though they became fodder for the media, they didn’t have much impact on voters. Apparently, most voters had made up mind their well before the election. Anyway, have fun watching them.

MB Patil Slaps a Man

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Siddaramiah’s statement about Lingayat’s CM being corrupt

Kannada:

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English:

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Siddaramiah Offers Clarification

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Mallikarjuna Kharge’s Visha Sarpa statement

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Apology in Kannada:

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Check out this short post(click here) to know what the people of Karnataka think about elections or voting in general.

Priyanka Kharge calling Modi Nalayak

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Banning Bajarang Dal in Congress Manifesto

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This is the last gaffe by Congress because it was right before the election. It was only a few days from the election when they announced the manifesto. It didn’t resonate much with people but made a lot of news in the media. I guess people had already seen enough communal issues in the last 2 years like Hijab, Azan, Halal, Boycot Muslim business, Uri Gowda and Nanje Gowda, etc. They didn’t want to have any more of it.