7 Most Shocking Freudian Slips By Politicians

By siliconindia | Monday, 03 November 2014, 10:08 Hrs

BANGALORE: ‘To err is human’ and one cannot avoid or take control over his silliest gaffes, it could be anyone, a kid, grown up man or a country’s president. It is always ok to make such error when you are at home or in a friend’s company but what if your tongue slips when you are representing your country or a huge public gathering?

Knock-Knock, then you just created history. Hard luck! Open up the history and you will find thousands of incidents to make a laugh upon. But if you cannot hold your curiosity right now, then here are the 7 ‘Mouth Gaffes’ made by the famous political leaders of the world as compiled by the Economic Times.

# Narendra Modi

Even a Prime Minister is human and the slip of tongue could be a case with him too. Indian PM, Narendra Modi's slip of tongue occurred while addressing a large gathering of NRIs at Madison Square Garden in New York when he referred Mahatama Gandhi as 'Mohanlal Karamchand Gandhi'. And to the surprise it’s not his first time, previously in 2013 he made the same mistake of pronouncing Gandhiji’s name incorrectly in a Rajasthan rally.

And his slip of tongue continued to Bhutan also, in a joint session of Bhutan's Parliament, he reffered to Bhutan as Nepal. The incident was instantly picked up on social media websites and a lot of jokes were cracked in this context on Twitter and Facebook.