At a rally on Friday a fan fell on the comically inclined Lalu Prasad Yadav. A ceiling fan, lest you get confused with the politician's large fan following.

TV reports showed the mishap in intricate detail. The accused fan was whirring quite inconspicuously on the ceiling when out of nowhere things took a turn for the worse and a part of the fan fell on Lalu's arm, at the end of which was a cup of tea. The unexpected occurrence led him to burn his hand.

Lalu lived. And the fan is answering some tough questions for this possibly politically motivated act, not.

The dreary slanging and vote-bank politics marking this elections has had a few light moments like the one above, and it's all thanks to Lalu bringing on the funnies, even if inadvertently

In August when Bharatiya Janata Party leader Amit Shah got stuck in a lift, Yadav was the first to comment.

It is rare that you can weight-shame a political rival, but Lalu is equal to the task. Responding to the incident, he said that such a corpulent man shouldn't get into a lift, and that Bihar's lifts are too small to accommodate such bulk.

Lalu was unsparing of Prime Minsiter Narendra Modi too, putting out this extraordinary dubsmash video with Modi's statements.

A dubsmashing Lalu, though, is not as funny as Lalu the open mimic. Early on in the election campaign he did just that.