Teacher Suspended for ‘Mimicking’ PM Modi Says He ‘Just Wanted to Make People Laugh’
Anand Mohan J | 15 March 2026 | The Indian Express
The call came late on Friday night. Government primary school teacher Saket Purohit was told that he had been suspended.
In a village 170 kilometres from Madhya Pradesh’s Shivpuri town, Purohit’s family had already seen the video. They had watched Purohit, a school teacher and in-charge of the local chapter of the state’s “Happiness Department” initiative, mimic Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cadence for a few seconds at a social gathering. He was suspended soon after the video went viral…