{"id":32370,"date":"2017-11-22T13:56:02","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T08:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/?p=32370"},"modified":"2017-11-22T14:17:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T08:47:16","slug":"youth-congress-scores-self-goal-twitter-meme-pm-modi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apnlive.com\/politics\/youth-congress-scores-self-goal-twitter-meme-pm-modi\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth Congress\u2019 scores a self-goal with Twitter meme against PM Modi"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]BJP slams Congress for Youth Congress tweet mocking Narendra Modi\u2019s \u2018chaiwala\u2019 past, Congress apologises and deletes tweet<\/em><\/p>\n

In a tweet reminiscent of senior Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar\u2019s blunder during the Lok Sabha 2014 elections when he had mocked Narendra Modi for once being a tea-seller, the Indian Youth Congress on Tuesday repeated the gaffe by posting on Twitter a meme that mocked the Prime Minister\u2019s \u2018chaiwala\u2019 past.<\/p>\n

The tweet has now been deleted after the BJP used it to, as it did in 2014, launch a broadside against the Congress party for being \u201canti-poor\u201d while leaders of the Congress and its youth wing have apologised for the meme and claimed that it was posted by volunteers and wasn\u2019t officially sanctioned by the party.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]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[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]The meme, posted on the official Twitter handle of the Youth Congress online magazine Yuva Desh, showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi, US President Donald Trump and British Prime Minister Theresa May in conversation.<\/p>\n

The quote bubbles in the meme showed Modi telling the two world leaders: \u201cAap logon ne dekha vipaksh mere kaise kaise maimai banvata hai?\u201d While Trump is shown correcting Modi, saying the word is pronounced as \u2018meem\u2019 \u2014 \u201cusse maimai nahin, meem kehte hain\u201d, a serious-looking British Prime Minister is seen telling Modi to go and sell \u2014 \u201cTu chai bech\u201d.<\/p>\n

The tweet can be seen as a profoundly avoidable self-goal by the Congress party just at a time when it was seeing a perceptible revival of its political fortune in Gujarat \u2013 the home state of Narendra Modi \u2013 weeks before the state goes for its high-stakes Assembly 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ext]Predictably, the BJP has turned the tables on the Congress by using the meme to charge the Grand Old Party with being \u201carrogant\u201d, \u201canti-poor\u201d and \u201cclassist\u201d.<\/p>\n

Although Narendra Modi has so far maintained a studied silence on the attack, the tweet triggered protests and counter-attacks from senior BJP leaders like Union ministers Ravi Shankar Prasad<\/a> and JP Nadda and Gujarat chief minister Vijay Rupani. Given his style, Modi is expected to rake up the issue while campaigning in Gujarat \u2013 brandishing the meme as evidence of how the Congress has \u2018insulted\u2019 the pride of Gujarat and \u2018humiliated\u2019 the poor.<\/p>\n

Evidently, those managing the content posted on the Yuva Desh twitter handle failed to learn anything from the blunder that Congress veteran Mani Shankar Aiyar had committed in the run up to the 2014 Lok Sabha elections. At a Congress function, Aiyar \u2013 known for his witty and often crude attacks against Modi \u2013 had told reporters that \u201cif Modi wants, he can come here (at the venue of the function) and sell tea.\u201d The comment was immediately picked up by Modi and the BJP to attack the Congress leadership during campaigning for the general elections and was believed to be one of the key reasons that gave the BJP a chance to project the Congress as a \u201cclassist and anti-poor\u201d party before the masses.<\/p>\n

The timing of the meme \u2013 coming as it does just weeks before Gujarat goes to polls for the first phase of its Assembly election due on\u00a0December 9<\/span>\u00a0\u2013 could not have been worse.<\/p>\n

While scores of BJP leaders, their sympathizers and the saffron party\u2019s IT cell chief Amit Malviya are known to have made far more obnoxious attacks on the Congress and its leaders through Twitter and public speeches, the Yuva Desh meme is something that the Congress could have avoided for two key 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in recent months, the Congress \u2013 especially party vice president Rahul Gandhi \u2013 had emerged as a \u2018star\u2019 of sorts on Twitter with witty attacks against the BJP which unlike the tweets by saffron party leaders and sympathizers were largely based on facts or puns and not pure filth, abuse or threats. By raking up Modi\u2019s \u2018chaiwala\u2019 past, the Congress has stooped to the same level as the BJP on social media, thereby endorsing the belief that ultimately the rhetoric of both the parties is not really different.<\/p>\n

Secondly, and perhaps more importantly, the Congress lacks any leader that can take on Modi when it comes to political \u2018spin-doctoring\u2019 and street-smart campaigning. Modi is known to have used the worst of abuse and attacks hurled at him by the Congress \u2013 Sonia Gandhi<\/a>\u2019s \u2018maut ka saudagar remark\u2019 and Aiyar\u2019s \u2018he can come and sell tea here\u2019 jibe being two such incidents \u2013 to his advantage; using them to project his humble, \u2018garib ka beta\u2019 beginnings.<\/p>\n

Incidentally, the Yuva Desh meme came on a day when the Congress and other Opposition parties were hitting out at the BJP over the saffron party\u2019s Bihar unit chief Nityanand Rai\u2019s comment made in Patna wherein he had urged people to \u2018break, and if needed, chop any finger or hand raised against Prime Minister Narendra Modi<\/a>\u2019. By posting a meme that mocks Modi for his humble past, the Congress has shown that it is no different from the BJP\u2019s when it comes to polluted poll rhetoric.<\/p>\n

Whether the meme will cost the Congress dearly in the Gujarat polls and dent its prospects of making incremental electoral gains in a state where it has been out of power for the past 22 years is something that will emerge only when election results are declared on\u00a0December 18<\/span>. But, until then it is clear that the BJP won\u2019t let the Congress brush the gaffe aside and instead extract it for maximum political mileage.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"