Under extreme pressure from all quarters for the delay in publishing their manifesto, the BJP has announced that it will come out with the best “Ab ki baar, Modi sarkaar” memes that are doing the rounds on the net in lieu of the manifesto.

BJP President Rajnath Singh said that the party’s IT Cell is working on compiling the best ones for the manifesto and the final document will witness a grand launch by the master of couplets, Baba Sehgal. “Thank God we have an apolitical person like him. Otherwise, as the most sensible choice for the chief guest, we’d have had to call in a poet of the standards of Shri Kapil Sibal and that would’ve been embarrassing,” Singh added.

Singh said that the idea was conceived when he went on to ask “What do we actually put in the manifesto, yaar?” at a party meeting, to which Nitin Gadkari reflexively replied, ‘Ab ki baar, Modi sarkaar.’ ”That did it! Previously, we were planning to release our UPA chargesheet itself as our manifesto, but this idea changed our minds,” Singh said.

“The amount of damage done by the UPA is so much that even if we come into power, we won’t be able to improve anything for at least a while. Since our campaigns are all about one man and one slogan, we decided to go ahead with the best memes itself in the list,” reasoned Singh.

“I’ve read hundreds of them, but my favorite is ‘URT ke columnist hai Ashwin Kumar, Ab Ki baar Modi Sarkaar’,” Singh admitted.

In related news, a JD(U) leader was suspended for uttering an ‘ab ki baar, Modi sarkaar’ meme in presence of Nitish Kumar, the leader’s impassioned plea that it was a catatonic response to Nitish’s observation “Kya ho raha hai, yaar?” notwithstanding.