Before Tuesday night, O Panneerselvam was the quintessential bystander, who many thought was best suited to stand on the sidelines and eat mixture. So much so that, during the jallikattu protests, one college student mocked him by dressing in white, sporting grey hair and zooming ahead as the pillion rider on the bike, eating mixture.
Tuesday night, however, changed everything. Suddenly OPS has become the man and the meme of the hour. In 13 memes, we give you OPS’s miraculous transformation, and the corresponding downslide in Sasikala’s bar graph, as popular support grows for the new “mass leader” of Tamil Nadu.