Critical and witty posts across social media are targeting Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and the Bharatiya Janata Party. Most are about the perceived understanding between the BJP and the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) during the trust vote in the state Assembly.

The Fadnavis government won the trust vote on Wednesday by a voice vote; NCP members abstained from voting, paving way for the new government to win the vote of confidence.

Even though the BJP claimed that it did not take support of NCP to sail through the trust vote, it seemed there was a tacit understanding between the two parties.

Comments have been posted on Fadnavis' Facebook page targeting him for the perceived support the BJP took from the NCP

Acting on NCP chief Sharad Pawar’s direction, his party MLAs abstained from voting, which clearly helped BJP to win the confidence motion by a voice vote. And this has enraged a lot of people who slammed the new BJP government.

Soon after the Fadnavis government won the trust vote in the Assembly, comments and images began to appear on Twitter and Facebook criticising the way the BJP government won the trust vote.

Similar comments and images got circulated through WhatsApp as well. One of the posts that went viral read: “Sharad Pawar ka Aashirwad, Chalo Chale Modi ke Saath (With Sharad Pawar’s blessings let’s move ahead with Modi).

The message was clearly a take on the BJP’s election slogan (Chhatrapati Shivaji Cha Ashirvad, Chalo Chale Modi Ke Saath) for the Maharashtra Assembly elections, which was about moving ahead with Prime Minister Modi along with blessings of Chhatrapati Shivaji.

Besides such comments, an image — in which NCP’s symbol clock was superimposed on BJP’s symbol lotus, also got circulated widely across Twitter, Facebook and WhatsApp.

Messages making fun of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) and Sharad Pawar have also been circulated; an image showed Pawar and his close aide R.R. Patil wearing the Sangh uniform and taking their oaths.

Chief Minister Fadnavis also faced criticisms. Comments have been posted on his Facebook page targeting him for the perceived support that BJP took from NCP.

“Fadnavis will soon become (Arvind) Kejriwal,” wrote one Ravikant Nagare.

Another post by Facebook user Nilesh Warang read: “They were going to free the state from Congress rule, but they themselves have gone with NCP.”