New Canadian PM grooves to bhangra beats
Saturday, 24/10/2015
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Ottawa: Justin Trudeau, the newly elected Canadian prime minister, is seen dancing ‘bhangra’ to the beats of a Bollywood song in a recently uploaded video on YouTube.
A video uploaded on Tuesday shows the Liberal party leader, donning a desi white kurta-pyjama, dancing to the catchy beats of Hadippa - the breakout theme song from the 2009 Bollywood film ‘Dil Bole Hadippa!’, the Huffington Post Canada reported. According to a party spokesperson, the footage was captured during an event organised by the India-Canada Association of Montreal in 2009.
For some, the footage reminds viewers of Trudeau’s father Pierre Elliott Trudeau and his signature prime ministerial pirouette. Pierre Elliott Trudeau served a total of four terms in the country’s top office. Justin is his eldest son. More recently, Harper’s wife Laureen showed off her own bhangra dance moves at a Conservative campaign event in Brampton, Ontario last week. The old bhangra video and Trudeau’s youthfulness are attracting renewed interest in Canada after voters elected a majority Liberal government on Monday, unseating former prime minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative party from nearly a decade in power. The Indian-Canadians more than doubled their representation in the Canadian parliament from eight to 19, as Canadians voted out the Conservative Party in a landslide of 184 seats in the 338-member House to the Liberal Party.
