Keeping up to her reputation of doing whatever it takes to find place in news, West Bengal’s CM Mamata Banerjee announced this morning that ‘ram’ in ramdhenu will now be replaced with ‘rong’. For all the non-bongs who make no sense of this, ramdhenu is the Bengali word for rainbow, and Ms. Banerjee has declared that rainbows need to be a lot more secular than they already are.
The Bengal CM had everyone flabbergasted with this move that took the whole secularism debate too far and got into re-naming nature’s phenomena. Interestingly, rainbow is also called ‘Indradhanush’ in Hindi and it remains to be seen which neta will next come up with how ‘non-secular’ that is.
Given the fact that the move was such an interesting and sudden one, of course Twitter did not spare it. From taking this replacement of ram with rong in random names to cracking Andaz Apna Apna Jokes, Twitter did it all. Take a look at the huge laugh Twitterati had at this secular change of name.
In mental MAMTA’s Bengal, SRK with his son AbRong. #ReplaceRamWithRong pic.twitter.com/VE751RBF5D
— Vivek Agnihotri (@vivekagnihotri) January 13, 2017
@coolfunnytshirt Our Bollywood films be like..#replaceRamWithRong pic.twitter.com/GDKq6wHxxQ
— Virender Sehwag (@VirnderSehwag) January 13, 2017
Now the textbooks will teach students..
” Rong and Rahim both are equal in the eyes of constitution.” #ReplaceRamWithRong— Day Dreamer (@13_Broken_Angel) January 13, 2017
In Islamic State of West Bengal Ramzan/Ramadan will be renamed to Rongzam or Rongadam.#ReplaceRamWithRong
— Santosh thakur (@Santosh51859111) January 13, 2017
Ram Dhanush becomes Rongdhonu. Taimur has found its textbook enemy in Ram.
— somi das (@Somi_Das) January 13, 2017
Rong Jethmalani’s reaction on Mamta’s act…#ReplaceRamWithRong pic.twitter.com/uz1D2NLRvk
— Jatan Acharya (@jatanacharya) January 13, 2017
It was during the times of Jagjivan Rong that we came up with Aya Rong Gaya Rong #ReplaceRamWithRong
— Counter Attack (@counterattacck) January 13, 2017
@coolfunnytshirt #ReplaceRamWithRong Stallone’s reaction after his name changed to john rongbo pic.twitter.com/DhX5QzMG2G
— kush (@kushhsoni) January 13, 2017
Just back from Rongeshwaram #ReplaceRamWithRong
— Counter Attack (@counterattacck) January 13, 2017
At least with this trend, SitaRong Yechuri will be really happy!@SitaramYechury #ReplaceRamWithRong
— The Furious One (@TheAngryLord) January 13, 2017
How can we trust teachings of Swami Vivekanand, when he himself was student of Rongkrishna Paramhans?_#ReplaceRamWithRong
— _______ (@IamSunilPathak) January 13, 2017
Rong with Wrong..#ReplaceRamWithRong pic.twitter.com/YOUUaqnlhO
— MumBaekar.. (@katamulgi) January 13, 2017
Imagine this scene with Aamir Khan shouting ‘Hey Rong Rong Rong Rong’ #ReplaceRamWithRong pic.twitter.com/npRl97CxG3
— Vighnesh. (@Vighrane01) January 13, 2017
It was during the times of Jagjivan Rong that we came up with Aya Rong Gaya Rong #ReplaceRamWithRong
— Counter Attack (@counterattacck) January 13, 2017
We wonder how rainbows around the world will now feel at the sight of a Bengali!
