Delhi Belly : Broom is Delhi’s New Groom

In one of the most stunning comebacks in Indian electoral history, Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) scored a landslide victory in the recently concluded Delhi Assembly elections, delivering to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi his first, truly shocking electoral defeats since his Lok Sabha triumph last year. It also brought AAP’s poll symbol jhaadu in true political limelight. The nature and extent of the AAP’s victory (67 out of 70 seats!) shocked and awed many. So much so that it provided plenty of material to cartoonists, satirists and copy writers to explode their creative potential to the fullest.

In fact, headlines in most Hindi dailies, in particular, spoke of this element in abundance; the day (that was, 10th February) results came out. Some such were: Dilli main jhaadu hi jhaadu (It’s broom everywhere in Delhi); Kejri ne poori Dilli pe pheri jhaadu ( Kejriwal made clean sweep of Delhi polls); Abki baar jhaadu sarkar, to name a few.

Those on the social media including twitter and facebook were also very active. They too explored the funnier side of AAP’s broom amid the cacophony of the heated 24x7 television debates analysing how Kejriwal’s tsunami swept away the Modi wave. Twitter was, in particular, flooded with congratulatory messages for AAP Here are some funny, tongue-in-cheek ones

By Pradeep Mathur