A group of Indian origins was seen dancing with Bharatiya Janata Party flags while wearing t-shirts with ‘NaMo again’ written on them on the streets of Manchester apparently in support of Prime Minister Narendra Modi for the upcoming Lok Sabha elections in India.
The dance ensemble also featured a man who was dressed up as Prime Minister Modi and joined in with the rest to shake a leg to the tune of Shankar Mahadevan’s ‘Breathless’.
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The video of the flash mob has gone viral on social media. “Yeh desh Jukne Nahin denge Expect 100s of more such campaigns in UK and EU,” one Twitter user said.
Flash dance at an European city by Indians.
This is probably the first election where public is vigorously campaigning for PM @narendramodi to become PM again rather than the politicians and the party itself pic.twitter.com/w7limo1P74— Rishi Bagree (@rishibagree) April 7, 2019
Indian diaspora @manarndale #Manchester Flashmob dance to support Modi ji for 2019 organised by #OFBJP #UK4Modi2019 @UK4Modi2019 @astitvam #ModiOnceMore @ShobhaBJP pic.twitter.com/13d0kG6guV
— UK4Modi2019 (@UK4Modi2019) April 7, 2019
The flash mob took place on the same day the BJP released its election campaign song with the tagline ‘Phir Ek Baar Modi Sarkar’.
The BJP also released its campaign highlights, which includes the Modi government’s “befitting” reply to terrorism by “hitting terrorists by entering enemy territory”.
चलो फिर एक बार हम मोदी सरकार बनाते हैं,
चलो मिलकर साथ आगे देश को बढ़ाते हैं। #PhirEkBaarModiSarkar #IsBaarPhirModi pic.twitter.com/6I5vi6B71Y
— BJP (@BJP4India) April 7, 2019
The Bharatiya Janata Party has released its Lok Sabha polls manifesto on Monday.
By Sowmya Sangam