Actor Anupam Kher was left red-faced on Wednesday while assisting his wife and BJP candidate Kirron Kher in a door-to-door campaign for the ongoing Lok Sabha election. He was out with his cavalcade of followers in Chandigarh, when a shopkeeper put him in a corner with a humble question on the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) poll promises.

When the veteran actor approached the shopkeeper in question, seeking his support for his wife, the man produced the saffron party’s 2014 manifesto and asked him how many of the promises had been fulfilled in the last five years.

In the video clip of the incident, which has gone viral since, he can be heard asking Kher: “Sir, ek chhoti si cheez poochna chahunga. Aap logon ne humse kuch waade kare thhe. Is mein se kya diya hai aap logon ne? (Sir, I have a question. You made us some promises. Which of these have you delivered?)”

The actor can then be seen turning around and leaving the premises without replying to him. And this is not even the first time that he has dodged questions raised by the public. Last month, while campaigning in Chandigarh, when he was asked if Kirron Kher is more active as an actor than a politician, he just said “Bharat Mata ki Jai” and left.



MUST WATCH: Embarrassing moment for @AnupamPKher while carrying out a door to door campaign for his wife in Chandigarh. A shopkeeper shows him BJP's 2014 manifesto and asks him how many promises did BJP fulfil in the past 5 yrs. Kher walks out of the shop with NO ANSWER!! href="https://t.co/x8cZodpnAL">pic.twitter.com/x8cZodpnAL

— Prashant Kumar (@scribe_prashant) May 8, 2019



Insulting Anupam Kher seems to have become the latest pastime in Chandigarh. https://t.co/OgKVL30TnJ

— Aditya Menon (@AdityaMenon22) May 8, 2019



You mean to say this time href="https://twitter.com/AnupamPKher?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@AnupamPKher didn't even say Bharat Mata Ki Jai? ON A SERIOUS NOTE - start sticking manifestos onto the faces of netas who come to ask for votes.

Don't let it become toilet paper that netas use to wipe their incompetence. https://t.co/OcGdIJSVK7

— The DeshBhakt (@akashbanerjee) May 8, 2019

The actor’s action irked many electorates who began sharing the video across multiple social media platforms.Anupam Kher later took to Twitter to back his actions. In the tweet, he alleged that the shopkeeper in the video was in fact planted by the Opposition, which he realised when he saw another person standing behind him start making a video. Figuring out what was going on, he said he decided to just walk away.