Social Buzz: From Shah Rukh Khan’s ‘palat’ to Bahubali’s Kattappa – Nitish Kumar’s ‘kingmaker’ status spurs meme fest

Now that Nitish Kumar has once again found himself at the political center stage, meme creators have been quick to capture his political somersaults through hilarious memes.

📌 DDLJ’s ‘Palat’ scene, featuring SRK and Kajol, grabs eyeballs
A meme showing the INDIA alliance waiting for Nitish Kumar to perform yet another political double cross has the internet in splits. The meme draws parallels with an iconic scene in Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge.

📌 Would Nitish Kumar ‘backstab’ the NDA a la Katappa, wonder Twitterati
In a twist no one saw coming, Kattappa killed Bahubali in the first installment of the eponymous blockbuster. Now, with the NDA’s future hanging balance, memers are wondering whether Nitish will once again join hands with the INDIA bloc, backstabbing the NDA, for noble or ignoble reasons, depending on which side of the political spectrum one falls.

📌 Congress jumps on the meme bandwagon  

The Kerala Congress couldn’t resist joining the meme bandwagon either.

📌 Parallels with Game of Thrones 
Some meme makers couldn’t help but compare Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu to Game of Thrones’ master kingmakers Lord Varys and Petyr Baelish ‘Little Finger.’

📌’Nitish Kumar, a double agent?’

Sharing stills from the film, Fighter, some Twitter users shared the conspiracy theory that perhaps Nitish Kumar was the misunderstood protagonist of the thriller that is Indian politics, and perhaps he was always an agent of the INDIA bloc.

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📌’Nitish on everybody’s speed dial’ 

Meme makers imagine that with Nitish Kumar and Chandrababu Naidu being wooed left, right and centre, all the attention must feel good.    

📌 ‘Panchayat’ has never been more relatable  

A clip from Panchayat where Pankaj Jha is seen helping people onto a trolley is also doing the rounds. When people ask Singh to join them, he replies, “Hum aayenge, zarur ayenge. Hum antim me aayenge” (I’ll join, I’ll join you in the end).

📌 Some other assorted memes

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