In what is seen as a symbolic gesture, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s mother, 94-year-old Heeraben Modi, visited a bank in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to exchange her old currency with new ones on Tuesday afternoon. Heeraben was helped by her family members to reach the bank and she was then seated in a chair in the queue while waiting for her turn to enter the bank.
At the end of it, Heeraben was a happy woman having got her hands on Rs 4500 in new currency notes and she’d also given Twitterati something new to tweet about.
Twitter was soon flooded with Modi supporters who saw the PM’s mother’s visit to the bank as an example of why others should stop whining about the long queues outside banks:
This one was high on emotions:
There were also the practical tweets about how the lady didn’t really have to stand in line:
Inevitable parallels were drawn between Rahul Gandhi standing in line for money outside a bank vs Narendra Modi’s mother doing the same:
Then came the tweets that called the whole act nothing but a political stunt to win brownie points with the country’s sentimental public:
And last but not the least, the guys who saw the funny side of the great demonetisation circus:
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