New Delhi: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Pranab Mukherjee pressed the "button" to officially roll out the much-awaited Goods and Services Tax (GST) "at the stroke of the midnight hour." But trust netizens to find even the most important stories funny. Social media soon turned to hilarious tweets and videos soon after GST was launched.
While some twitter users took the opportunity to free the ‘beef’ of all guilt of lynchings and killings and shift the blame to the GST, some found more serious logistical and syntactical issues with the abbreviation.
Say for example,
"Gita has 18 chapters, GST council had 18 meetings."
— Sanjiv Bhatt (IPS) (@sanjivbhatt) June 30, 2017
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Thus, GST is sacred. If you don't like it, you are anti Hindu, ergo antinational.😎
Or for example,
From now onwards instead of blaming beef we request Indian Media to blame GST for all further deaths in India.
— Zaid Hamid (@SZaidHamid) June 30, 2017
Checkmate!
or when somebody says they are 'GST' friends
Arun Jaitley: I love you
— Pakchikpak Raja Babu (@HaramiParindey) June 30, 2017
Girl : but we are GST friends
And someone reminds it is not the full form of Tendulkar's name
No, God Sachin Tendulkar isn't the full form of GST.
— Silly Point (@FarziCricketer) June 30, 2017
Then there was what everybody was thinking!
Why no GST on "Dhinchak Pooja" songs Modi ji ? What's the deal ?
— Arvind Kejriwal (@TrollKejri) June 30, 2017
But there are logistical issues you see, felt another Twitter user
People are even afraid to travel tomorrow from Meenambakkam to Nagapattinam. The road is called GST Road.
— Naveen (@naveenarendran) June 30, 2017
But there were yet others who felt that GST is time for a shopping spree!
Diwali, Holi , dusserah now the time for GST .. happy shopping
— C H A R I S H M A N (@charishman) June 13, 2017
Even our Twitter savvy Virendra Sehwag could not stay back from commenting
Trying to understand #GST be like #GSTForNewIndia #GayiSarkarTumhari #gstrollout #JCWithYogi #GSTMuhuratShopping pic.twitter.com/kkKPlqIsfU
— Virendra sehwag (@Supermanbita) July 1, 2017
With someone summing it up as imagination vs reality
Imagination vs reality. #GSTRollout pic.twitter.com/bgBIb54rSV
— Swapnil Suryawanshi (@swapnil_bs) June 30, 2017
With another trolling GST even more
Pic 1 - Selling Price
— Bade Chote (@badechote) June 30, 2017
Pic 2 - Selling Price + GST #gstrollout pic.twitter.com/dzTwlWGTmx
