Living up to their reputation of creating instant and stinging memes of
real-life situations, the trollers of Kerala struck at the Metro
inaugural on Saturday.
The uptight and silo-like posture of the dignitaries after boarding the
Kochi Metro, including that of prime minister Narendra Modi, was noticed
immediately by those watching the live footage on television channels.
As the prime minister wound up his brief journey at Paalarivattom, in
less than 10 minutes of boarding the train, the first troll started
doing the rounds. It depicted five people, namely, union minister
Venkaiah Naidu, Modi, BJP state president Kummanam Rajkasekharan, chief
minister Pinarayi Vijayan, and governor P. Sadasivam.
The trollers used popular Malayalam actor Jagathy Sreekumar's photograph
to portray Kummanam. He was positioned between the PM and Pinarayi, in
an apparent reference to the vantage political positioning that the
latter had gained of late.
Kummanam's recent affirmative statement on metro man E. Sreedharan's
confirmed presence at the Kochi Metro inaugural would have prompted the
trollers to think up of him as a formidable presence in the state's
politics.
Others felt the image represented the invisible but perceptible barrier
of political dichotomy thrown up by the BJP ruling the center and the
Left Democratic Front, the state. The image deftly represented the
resultant gulf between two leaders of preeminence, amateur political
observers said.
Anyhow, the trollers seem to be sharp and politically quick-witted. For,
it is no mean task to come up with a digital-age answer to well
though-out political cartooning and lampooning of a bygone era.
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