#fekudiwas, #AAPDiwas trend on April Fools’ Day

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal became the faces of satirical campaigns launched on twitter as political parties made innovative use of April Fool's day.

The Congress party's youth wing on Wednesday came out with a hashtag #fekudiwas to claim that Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP government had made fools of the nation.

At the same time, supporters of the BJP purportedly started a campaign against the Aam Aaadi Party labelled as #AAPDiwas, #KejriDiwas or #AAPrilfoolsday.

Though #fekudiwas and #fekuday didn't quite become national trends they were seen by about 2 million people according to data from the tracking site

>keyhole.co . The campaign seemed to essentially centre around the new government's pre-election claim that it would bring back black money stashed abroad within two months of coming to power. It also featured funny visuals about the government's as yet unrealised plans to bring bullet trains to India and the tall claims by Prime Minister Modi to global leaders about acche din coming to India. The term 'feku' was coined by the Congress to refer to Mr Modi in the run up last year's general elections.

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Bullet Train flagged off by Suresh Prabhu... >#FekuDay >#FekuDiwas >pic.twitter.com/wvGJtRqjSH
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World leaders are searching >#Achchedin >#Fekuday >#FekuDiwas >#JumlaDiwas >pic.twitter.com/2n1eS0aFXm
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The twitter campaign against the AAP meanwhile pokes fun at the party over its internal feud which has been played out in avery public way over the past few weeks. It was also complimented by a series of posters that unexpectedly appeared all across Delhi on Wednesday morning with pictures of the Chief Minister wishing Delhites on ‘Kejriwal Divas’.

The posters have been put up by the Bhagat Singh Kranti Sena (BSKS), a New Delhi-based right-wing nationalist organisation. The posters carry a photo of Mr. Kejriwal looking suitable grim at Rajghat.

>#AAPrilFoolsDay thank you >@tajinderbagga >pic.twitter.com/VVaDrENWgT
— Anurag saxena (@saaxenanurag) >April 1, 2015

#fekudiwas, #AAPDiwas trend on April Fools’ Day

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