Key Points
New Delhi: In February 2022,during a Rajya Sabha speech,Prime Minister Narendra Modireferred to the opposition party as tukde-tukde gang, alleging that the Congress party was in the grip of Urban Naxals..
Within hours, the two words were trending on social media.In the past decade,Modi has emerged as a key slogan-giver to an angry and anxious nation..
A year before that,he also coined the word Aandolanjeevi serial protesters as a way to lampoonactivists who were protesting withfarmers agitating against the farm laws in 2021...
Words such as Pappu used to refer to opposition leader Rahul Gandhi, Thook Jihad during Covid pandemic and Bulldozer when the houses were bulldozed by the Uttar Pradesh government reflect the vocabulary used by the BJP and its followers each term representing different aspects of its political discourse...
Since then, the word has been echoed by BJP whenever Bannerjee came to UP, widely using on social media and integrated in the lexicon of common people.Khela Hobe was another coinage that became the currency of oppositions chutzpah during the 2021 Bengal polls...
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