Cong posts satirical video on Modi as rupee breaches 88 mark

Set to mocking lyrics, it depicts the Prime Minister lamenting the rupee’s slide while attempting, unsuccessfully, to woo the US dollar alongside a poster of US President Donald Trump.

The video also takes aim at the government over inflation, rising fuel costs and soaring ration prices. In one sequence, Modi’s caricature sings, “Rupee fell in the currency market under my government. How do I face the public, when my respect has fallen?”

In another, he adds (looking at Trump’s image): “I tried to woo the dollar, but it said ‘I am sorry’.”

The satire also revives Modi’s own attacks on the Congress-led UPA during the 2013–14 campaign, when he accused the Manmohan Singh government of failing to check the rupee’s fall.

At the time, he had remarked: “Today, the speed at which the value of rupee is falling, at times, it seems there is competition between the government in Delhi and the rupee on whose value is falling faster.”

The video comes at a time when the rupee has tumbled to its lowest-ever level following the imposition of an additional 25 per cent US tariffs on Indian goods this week, doubling the overall duties to 50 per cent.