He posted his still image showing him speaking in the Upper House of Parliament. To it, he added a mock subtitle: “Sir, yeh memes band nahi hone chahiye… ” — as if telling the chairperson of the Rajya Sabha, in Hindi, that “these memes must not stop”.
AAP MP Raghav Chadha on Friday expressed love for all the memes being made around his raising of popular — or generic, according to some — issues in the Rajya Sabha. “Loving the memes, you guys are really creative.. keep them coming,” he wrote on X, with a meme of his own.
The memes hit the replies section of this post too, explaining what he was actually talking about. One showed him raising the issue of coconut water : “Sir jab paise nariyal pani ke hain to hum pure nariyal ke paise kyun dein.” (‘When we buy just the water, why should we pay for the whole coconut?’)
To be sure, he did not actually raise that issue.
Another showed him demanding “four Sundays every week”. Yet another had him saying: “Speaker sir, ab Golmal, Heri Pheri, Dhamaal jesi movies nahi ban rahi,” demanding more slapstick comedies from the Indian film industry.
Some users flagged his near-absence from AAP’s affairs, including when the party celebrated a court’s discharging of its chief Arvind Kejriwal and other leaders in the Delhi liquor policy case. “If you really like it we will flood you with memes, but don't think we will forgive you for… ditching your guru,” one X user commented.
There were multiple replies also praising his ability to take a joke and not threaten the meme-makers with legal cases.
Indeed the 37-year-old Rajya Sabha MP from Punjab, one of the founding members of AAP, has been on a roll this Budget Session, in that he's consistently been raising general, consumer-centric issues, from mobile recharge frustrations to what's really inside that fruit juice carton.
This week, he spoke in the House on how “traffic has turned our metro cities into giant parking lots with people trapped inside them”.