nThe tables have turned, and so have the memes. With the BJP set to sweep the AAP out of power in Delhi polls, social media on Saturday exploded with hilarious posts recalling Arvind Kejriwal’s bold claim that Narendra Modi will need another birth to win the capital.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo’s 2023 remark -- “I want to tell Narendra Modi ji that you will have to take another birth to defeat us in Delhi” -- was meant to be a flex. Instead, it has now become the punchline of the season.
A viral sack race video summed up the situation, showing the BJP predictably sprinting to victory, the Congress wandering off in an entirely different, and the AAP running behind the saffron party.
One of the memes doing the rounds shows Rahul Gandhi at a petrol station, asking a customer to check ‘zero’ -- a not-so-subtle dig at his party’s forgettable achievement of drawing a blank in three successive elections in Delhi.
Meanwhile, X has been flooded with takes on why AAP flopped, with many pointing fingers at the ‘drama’ between Kejriwal and AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal, with some memes hinting that the latter played a bigger role in AAP’s downfall than the actual voters.
AAP Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal took a veiled swipe at the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi. “Even Ravan’s arrogance couldn’t save him…” the Rajya Sabha MP posted on X. Maliwal’s cryptic post on X (formerly Twitter) quickly captured attention of the netizens. Maliwal also shared a painting from the epic Mahabharata showing Draupadi’s disrobing (vastraharana) by Dushasana while Krishna re-robes her after the Pandavas lost a gamble to Kauravas
She also posted a painting depicting Draupadi’s cheer-haran (disrobing) - a scene from the epic Mahabharata in which Pandavas lost a bet to their usurping cousins. Maliwal had a fallout with the party and its top leader, Arvind Kejriwal, last year after she went to meet him at his house, but she was allegedly misbehaved by Kejriwal’s personal secretary.
As the election results unfold, social media platforms have been flooded with memes and discussions, with many users attributing AAP’s downfall to internal discord, particularly the conflict between Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Rajya Sabha MP Swati Maliwal.
Online users have shared humorous and critical memes, some suggesting that Maliwal’s actions played a role in the party’s poor performance.
During the assembly polls, Maliwal exposed Arvind Kejriwal’s party in the national capital. She had also visited Vikaspuri, Kirari and New Delhi where she claimed that the streets were choked with waste, posing severe health and hygiene issues for residents.
In a viral video, AAP candidate Avadh Ojha could be seen in a clip predicting 60-plus seats for AAP, only for a user to add the punchline: “Ye hai Mentos Zindagii.”
The creativity didn’t stop there, as another video showed a dubbed-over clip of AAP leader Sanjay Singh saying, “Mandir ke andar gaya toh halwa khatam, aur bahar aaya toh chappal gayab”, indicating the loss of AAP as well as its prominent faces.