The Omelette That Wasn't

In the final days of the campaign, the Congress in Telangana showcased a jumbo egg-shaped delight at several rallies.

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On that white orb were painted, in black, the Telugu letters gadidha guddu (donkey’s egg). Held up at rallies to humour their audiences, this is essentially a visual joke meant to take a jibe at the BJP. The other day, CM Revanth Reddy had dipped his digital ink in full-on snark as he deployed this old folk image on X. All that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had given the state in a decade was a gadidha guddu, he tweeted.