The Vote Charades : They Came, They Campaigned And......It Was Totally Weird Part 1

It was that time of the year again. Once in five years. They come back. They, the people, who we cast our

votes for and send to the Parliament, to....well.....to represent us! Today in 2019, India has had seventeen Lok Sabha elections. Unfortunately, the only thing that has changed is the level of idiocy and the amount of money spent on election campaigns. So, on the last day of polls in this General Elections, let's look at some campaign incidents which were..... totally weird and insensible. Period.

The Lord Hanuman Campaign:

We see gods coming down from heaven, campaigning in support of their favourite parties, because... otherwise Mandir Kaun Banayega? BJP has really made the most out of Lord Hanuman this year, or so as it may seem. Ram ka Mandir Banega Aur Hanuman na aye, is it possible? And as it was supposed to be, Hanuman directly landed on the bonnet of a campaign car in support of Jagannath Sarkar, the candidate for BJP in Ranaghat, West Bengal. Hanuman has been a favourite of these people. In fact, when the Supreme Court banned Yogi Adityanath for being 'naughty', he straight went to a Hanuman Temple!

The Gloves and the Bed Tea:

The Chief Minister of West Bengal, our beloved Mamata Didi, the Trinamool Congress Supremo, has always been very culturally motivated. Whenever the Lok Sabha polls come close, her eyes fall upon the Tollywood industry,and we get reel life heroes/heroines as our candidates. But, being an MP is a part-time job for them, and that must be kept in mind. Besides the superstar MPs from the last election, she fielded Mimi Chakraborty, a gorgeous artist from the Bengali silver screen,as her candidate from Jadavpur constituency. But, it gets really hot in the months of April and May in West Bengal. So, miss Mimi was seen wearing gloves to all her campaigns where she shook hand with people. And these were long gloves, which covered her hands from deadly sunburns. Well, most of India lives in Air Conditioning, right?

Seems the worst? No, dear reader. When the fourth rounds of polling were on, Asansol was shaken up by clashes in between BJP and TMC supporters. Moon Moon Sen, the TMC candidate from this constituency replied, and she is being quoted saying to a national news channel here, "They gave me my bed tea very late so I woke up very late. What can I say? I really don't know". Yes. That's the perfect answer from an MP candidate. Right.

Too much of such crap has gone on this year, and yes, it has. This segment was concentrated more on the tussle between TMC and BJP, where both of them have made idiotic campaigns and indifferent remarks. A tussle between the two made Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar headless, in College Street, and vandalized Vidyasagar College, during Amit Shah's roadshow.

Bengalis, now when asked, " Modi or Didi?', the common reply is," Give us a break from both of them."

That's all for Part 1, see you in Part 2!