It’s the age of social media and not just variety, memes too spice up our lives. And it’s all the more hilarious when the leading national political parties join the bandwagon.
Keeping the upcoming Lok Sabha elections and probably also the demographic dividend of India in mind, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress are brutally trolling each other on social media and coming up with the most creative memes and parodies. Each party is said to have designated social media teams who create content for social media campaigning for their respective parties.
डर के आगे आज़ादी। #Azadi pic.twitter.com/WGHw3Q7Ndo
— Congress (@INCIndia) February 8, 2019
Taking a cue from upcoming film Gully Boy song ‘Azadi’, the Congress released its own Azadi song on social media. The rap slams the BJP and calls for freedom from the ruling party.
The film song takes a dig at the corrupt governments in the country and follows from the azadi-slogans raised by the then Jawaharlal Nehru University student union president Kanhaiya Kumar in 2016, for which he was charged with sedition.
The BJP was swift to counter-slam the Congress with its own version, giving folks a goal for 2019: “Congress se Azadi”.
While @RahulGandhi will stay up all night wondering what new lies to peddle tomorrow morning, we leave you with this goal for 2019.
Have a happy friday night, people! 🙂 pic.twitter.com/WOXOJ1QPYO
— BJP (@BJP4India) February 8, 2019
Two days ago, the Congress also put up a crossword puzzle ‘Find Modi Scams’. It said, “#ContestAlert: Find 10 of the many scams of the #Modi Govt and get a chance to win ?10,000,” and gave a hint: “Visit www.corruptmodi.com.”
A day ago, Congress shared a meme showing Narcos character Pablo Escobar and captioned it “Chor at 7 Racecourse today. #PakdagayaModi.”
Chor at 7 Racecourse today. #PakdagayaModi pic.twitter.com/VOEfZPECGe
— Congress (@INCIndia) February 8, 2019
The meme was first posted by the BJP on the Budget day with the caption, “Prince at 10JP after the Budget Speech.”
Prince at 10JP after the Budget Speech 😉 pic.twitter.com/5c4g3aTFx2
— BJP (@BJP4India) February 1, 2019
And so, the BJP roasted the Congress saying, “When you have to copy BJP even while making memes, despite having a walking-talking meme as your Party President, then it speaks volumes :)”
Chor at 7 Racecourse today. #PakdagayaModi pic.twitter.com/VOEfZPECGe
— Congress (@INCIndia) February 8, 2019
This morning the BJP on its Twitter handle, wished its 10.4 million followers, saying, “Good Morning, folks. While you are starting a new day of honesty and hard work, #LiarRahulGandhi is preparing to peddle more lies It’s difficult to track all his lies, but we’ve tried to track major lies peddled by him on #Rafale. A heads up before his today’s quota!”
Good Morning, folks.
While you are starting a new day of honesty and hard work, #LiarRahulGandhi is preparing to peddle more lies
It's difficult to track all his lies, but we've tried to track major lies peddled by him on #Rafale. A heads up before his today's quota!
— BJP (@BJP4India) February 9, 2019
Lie No.1: #LiarRahul tried to twist some report in a French media house to say making Reliance an offsets partner was a tradeoff for Dassault to get the deal with India.
Fact: Both Supreme Court & Dassault CEO said Indian govt had nothing to do with choosing of offsets partners. pic.twitter.com/C4vlTEFUAT
— BJP (@BJP4India) February 9, 2019
