Voting Memes

Indian stock markets crashed by over 6,000 points on Tuesday after the counting of votes showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP-led NDA alliance past the majority mark but not registering a landslide victory as predicted by most exit polls.

To encourage young voters to participate in the democratic process, the Election Commission of India on Saturday posted a new meme featuring the popular character 'Munna Bhaiyya' from the Amazon Prime series Mirzapur.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has taken a creative approach to boost voter turnout in the 6th phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

While the wait for results generated frustration, the witty memes served as a shared outlet for expressing emotions and maintaining a sense of community.

As per the latest ECI data, Congress got a 42.93 percent vote share, BJP got a 36.17 percent vote share and JDS received a 12.97 percent vote share.

As the counting of votes in Uttar Pradesh elections began Thursday morning, a meme in Hindi started doing the rounds on social media -- "A massive road accident in Uttar Pradesh as a bulldozer decimates an oncoming speeding bicycle."

The excitement on Twitter is palpable with counting of votes underway for the recently-concluded Assembly Elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and Assam.

The neutral pronoun "they" has been voted word of the decade by US language experts, beating out other contenders that included "climate" and "meme".

"Every vote matters" is a message that the Election Commission and political leaders often repeat to make people realise the importance of voting in world's largest democracy.

Someone in the Press Information Bureau surely is a big Shah Rukh Khan fan. After parodying a dialogue from SRK's iconic "Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge" to urge people to vote in the national elections, the government's communication agency pulled out another one today from one of Shah Rukh's classic, "Devdas".

The most important aspect of any election is the participation of the electorate. The Election Commission, political parties and the government make efforts to encourage voters to turn up on the polling day.

Like every big development, the Karnataka numbers game also inspired many social media jokes, memes and WhatsApp messages. One of them featured in the Supreme Court hearing in which BJP's BS Yeddyurappa was ordered to take a trust vote by 4 pm on Saturday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has requested the Congress "not to mock my poor origins," extending his scathing attack on the opposition party and its leader Rahul Gandhi from one rally in Gujarat to another, as he begins a campaign blitz his home state, which votes early next month for a new government.

Indian stock markets crashed by over 6,000 points on Tuesday after the counting of votes showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi's BJP-led NDA alliance past the majority mark but not registering a landslide victory as predicted by most exit polls.

To encourage young voters to participate in the democratic process, the Election Commission of India on Saturday posted a new meme featuring the popular character 'Munna Bhaiyya' from the Amazon Prime series Mirzapur.

The Election Commission of India (ECI) has taken a creative approach to boost voter turnout in the 6th phase of the ongoing Lok Sabha elections.

While the wait for results generated frustration, the witty memes served as a shared outlet for expressing emotions and maintaining a sense of community.

As per the latest ECI data, Congress got a 42.93 percent vote share, BJP got a 36.17 percent vote share and JDS received a 12.97 percent vote share.

As the counting of votes in Uttar Pradesh elections began Thursday morning, a meme in Hindi started doing the rounds on social media -- "A massive road accident in Uttar Pradesh as a bulldozer decimates an oncoming speeding bicycle."

The excitement on Twitter is palpable with counting of votes underway for the recently-concluded Assembly Elections in West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Puducherry and Assam.

The neutral pronoun "they" has been voted word of the decade by US language experts, beating out other contenders that included "climate" and "meme".

"Every vote matters" is a message that the Election Commission and political leaders often repeat to make people realise the importance of voting in world's largest democracy.

Someone in the Press Information Bureau surely is a big Shah Rukh Khan fan. After parodying a dialogue from SRK's iconic "Dilwale Dulhaniya Le Jayenge" to urge people to vote in the national elections, the government's communication agency pulled out another one today from one of Shah Rukh's classic, "Devdas".

The most important aspect of any election is the participation of the electorate. The Election Commission, political parties and the government make efforts to encourage voters to turn up on the polling day.

Like every big development, the Karnataka numbers game also inspired many social media jokes, memes and WhatsApp messages. One of them featured in the Supreme Court hearing in which BJP's BS Yeddyurappa was ordered to take a trust vote by 4 pm on Saturday.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has requested the Congress "not to mock my poor origins," extending his scathing attack on the opposition party and its leader Rahul Gandhi from one rally in Gujarat to another, as he begins a campaign blitz his home state, which votes early next month for a new government.