'I am the original': Modi lookalike hits campaign trail

Abhinandan Pathak might walk and talk just like India's current prime minister, Narendra Modi, but he's running against Modi's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the city of Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh. [AFP]

His white beard neatly trimmed and a sleeveless jacket thrown over his traditional Indian shirt, Abhinandan Pathak turns heads thanks to an uncanny resemblance to the country's Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

But Pathak -- almost the same height and build as the PM, and who even walks in a similar way -- is no ordinary doppelganger.