Last year, Twitter brought back the instructional charts which are a staple of most school children in the country, but with some adroit photoshopping skills turned them into a funny battle of the ideological kind. While Prime Minister Narendra Modi's die-hard supporters have come to be known as Bhakts for their blind hero-worship, those on the other side, in turn, have acquired the label of Adarsh Liberals, for their professing to be the role models for a liberal world view, giving rise to a battle of the memes that has never really faded from the limelight.
With Lohri, Makar Sankranti and Pongal on the horizon, the battle is raging once again on the social media. Take this poster mocking the Adarsh Liberals' supposed disdain for Hindu festivals.
An Adarsh Liberal Hindu Festivals Calendar pic.twitter.com/bPxRmwVPLC
— Adarsh Liberal (@AdarshLiberal) January 13, 2016
This tweet was only the latest in a series of missives that both sides have fired at each other in a battle that began last year. First came the definitional chart.
Adarsh Liberal be like pic.twitter.com/YcRT8ztczK
— Adarsh Liberal (@AdarshLiberal) March 10, 2015
And then came the counter, painting the world and the BJP and Modi supporters in equally broad terms. #AdarshLiberals came up with their own definitional charts and tags for #AdarshBhakt and #AdarshSanghi.
Ok so here it is :P (via- Unofficial: Subramaniam Swamy on FB) :) pic.twitter.com/lDBs8wAhwQ
— Scotchy (@scotchism) March 11, 2015
The battle was soon joined well and proper and everything was fair game as people took to photoshopping with a vengeance. The meme, clearly, lives on.
#AdarshLiberal - II pic.twitter.com/IRn4A8BKbJ
— Adarsh Liberal (@AdarshLiberal) March 13, 2015
An #AdarshLiberal family is well settled and earning good money #BecauseOfNehru pic.twitter.com/Mc8Vgopw8F
— Adarsh Liberal (@AdarshLiberal) March 15, 2015
#AdarshBhakt series cont. pic.twitter.com/Ct7QJhYR4b
— Kanika (@nskathy) August 12, 2015
#AdarshLiberal BRAIN (Pic) >> pic.twitter.com/WffDrGASB3
— INFLUENCER (@Purple_Truth) March 11, 2015