A list of some of Rahul Gandhi's most infamous gaffes

Sep 12, 2017, 05.09 PM IST ET

RaGa's back in focus

Rahul Gandhi is back in the limelight after mistakenly saying that there are 546 seats in the Lok Sabha, adding yet one more blunder to his already famous list of embarrassing gaffes. Here's a look at some of his other hilarious comments made at social occassions.

BCCL

Amma Canteen...or Indira canteen?

Gandhi, being the master of goofing up badly at social situations, became the perfect target for trolls this year in July when, in a slip of tongue, he referred to Karnataka govt's subsidized food service providing Indira canteen as 'amma' canteen; another subsidized food provider popular in Tamil Nadu.

Confused between 'Bhrashtachar' and 'balatkaar'

Rahul Gandhi mixed up the two Hindi words while addressing a women's rally in Madhya Pradesh as he tried to refer to the increasing number of violence against women in the BJP-ruled Indian state.

Aloo ki factory

Talking to people in Firozabad, Rahul said: "You all are demanding a potato factory in your area, but you should understand I am an opposition leader. I cannot open a potato factory". A slip of tongue, abound in almost all of his speeches, landed him in trouble here as what he meant to say was factory of potato chips and not 'potato factory'.

PTI

The wrong hug

Rahul embarrassed his party when he hugged a wrong person in a photo-op during his visit to a hospital at Una in Gujarat to meet the young Dalit men who were stripped and beaten by a group of cow vigilantes for skinning a dead cow. He hugged a woman, mistaking her for a relative of the victims.

Staying foolish

Addressing the students at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies in Mumbai, Rahul said, "One day you're going to run this country, run the institutions, you will be the Steve Jobs in the Microsofts and the leaders…the Facebooks of this country." We don't know if it was a slip of tongue or Rahul really didn't know his Steve Jobs from his Microsoft.

Dropping the other Gandhi

While slamming the NDA government for criticising Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Gurantee Act (MNREGA) scheme in Parliament, Rahul called it just NREGA, removing Mahatama Gandhi's name. While Rahul fumbled and corrected his statement, some members of the Treasury benches shouted, "Bhool gaya, bhool gaya."