Lok Sabha Elections 2024: Shah Rukh Khan Lookalike Campaigns For Congress Candidate In Maharashtra

The Lok Sabha election 2024 battle is heating up?and?candidates?across the country?are pulling all stops to attract voters.?But a candidate from Solapur,?Maharashtra?pulled off a rather unusual stunt to attract crowds.

Fake?Shah Rukh Khan on campaign

In a video that has gone viral, actor Shah Rukh Khan was seen campaigning for Praniti Shinde, the Congress candidate from Solapur. But the only problem was that he was no real Shah Rukh?Khan,?but a lookalike.

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While the identity of the Shah Rukh?Khan seen campaigning Praniti is unclear, according to some reports, the?doppelganger?was Ibrahim Qadri?who?has made a fan-following on social media?for himself?for his resemblance to the actor.

How BJP has reacted

And the cheeky campaign hasn't gone unnoticed, though?may?not be in line with what the Congress candidate was hoping for.

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"Imagine the lengths to which the party can go to fool people so brazenly and openly. Peddling fake surveys, making up fake anti-India narratives, using AI generated Deep Fakes of celebrities?and?now this. Now you know why this party is already blaming EVMs," BJP leader Shehzad Poonawala said on X.

Who is?Praniti Shinde

Praniti Shinde is the daughter of Sushilkumar?Shinde, the ex-Union Home Minister and former Chief Minister of Maharashtra.

She is the sitting MLA of Solapur City Central and is contesting against BJP's Ram Satpute, who is also the MLA of Malshiras.

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Candidate uses Modi lookalike

Praniti, however, is not the only candidate to use a doppelganger for?Lok?Sabha election campaign.

Last week, rebel Karnataka BJP leader?KS Eshwarappa?who filed his nomination as an Independent candidate from the Shivamogga where he is contesting the Lok Sabha polls against BY Raghvendra, the son of former Karnataka Chief Minister?BS Yediyurappa?was seen accompanied by a?Modi doppelganger?during his campaign.

Eshwarappa used Sadananda Nayak, a cook from Hiriyadka town in Udupi district, who has an uncanny resemblance with the Indian PM after the BJP raised an issue with the rebel candidate using photos of Modi in his campaign.

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