Hours before Prime Minister Narendra Modi almost stole the thunder from the United States elections within a few minutes of his speech on Tuesday night 8pm. It is notable that every TV Channel and online publications were gearing up for the US elections scheduled to be held on November 8 in the country.
Unpredictable announcement of PM Modi to nation
But, it led to turmoil in several newsrooms when the information of PM Modi’s address to the nation broke in. But nobody could have an idea that the Narendra Modi would announce such blasting news.
PM Modi began his address showing concern about the poor people and common man of the country. And in just a few minutes he carried out a surgical strike with the announcement of scrapping the old currency note of RS 500 and RS 100, effective from Tuesday midnight.
Social media flooded with jokes
For a moment everyone would have been shocked with other shouting what? in a confused tone. All those graphics and charts made for the US election had become useless. Just after PM Modi’s announcement, social media was flooded with the several jokes and one of the jokes going viral in this situation is “Indian media was preparing for Trump and Hillary, Modi come out of Syllabus,”
Another one read, “Donald trump: I will create history tonight
Hillary Clinton: No, I will create history tonight.
Modi: Hello… Mike check.”
On Tuesday daytime, US election was trending on Twitter in India, but suddenly the whole scenario had been changed when PM Modi made the historic announcement.
