AIB Posts Meme on Narendra Modi, Outrage and Police Action Follow

New Delhi: Comedy group All India Bakchod (AIB) is controversy’s favourite child. Whether it is a roast on Bollywood stars or a snapchat video showing Sachin Tendulkar and Lata Mangeshkar, they have always managed to ruffle feathers.

And so it happened again on Thursday after they took a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi for his frequent foreign visits. The group’s Facebook page posted a photo of a Modi lookalike with a Snapchat dog filter and captioned it ‘Wanderlust.’

The result of this seemingly innocent attempt at poking fun was a day full of outrage, political wars between Congress and BJP workers on social media, and an over-eager Mumbai Police ready to file an official complaint against the group.

AIB had to delete the Facebook post and oscillated between going on the offensive and the defensive after a barrage of accusations.

Some Twitter users explained how things reached the state they were in.

Congress workers accused AIB of being scared of the BJP and called its member, Rohan Joshi, of being a “coward” for deleting the post and not standing up to BJP’s online army. They said their party would never rob anyone of their freedom of speech.

Some Twitter users were also quick to tag Mumbai Police on the “offensive” post, saying a police complaint should be filed against AIB over the offensive picture.

And Mumbai Police was quick to respond, unlike the case when cops laughed off a complaint from a 22-year-old woman who was flashed and masturbated at by a man in a local train. Here, the police said it would forward the complaint to its cyber unit. The tweet, however, was later deleted.

In response, the AIB reminded that they had made fun of all political parties, including PM Modi, on several occasions in the past. Tanmay Bhatt responded to the outrage with a series of tweets, saying he was “so, so frustrated” with all the drama over a Facebook post. “Congress leaders and BJP trolls both getting mad over a goddamn silly snapchat filter meme smh,” he wrote on Twitter.

Bhatt also made a sly reference to an old tweet by PM Modi, where he said humour is very important and vowed to continue making jokes.