’I am the original’: Modi lookalike hits campaign trail

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Mon, 2019-05-13 02:47

LUCKNOW, India: His white beard neatly trimmed and a sleeveless jacket thrown over his traditional Indian shirt, Abhinandan Pathak turns heads thanks to an uncanny resemblance to the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
But Pathak — almost the same height and build as the PM, and who even walks in a similar way — is no ordinary doppelganger.
Bitter at Modi’s “failed promises,” Pathak is running as an independent against Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India’s marathon election — and is getting a lot of support.