A PM’s address that set social media afire with speculation

Another Emergency? Got Dawood Ibrahim, Masood Azhar or Hafiz Saeed, ask Twitterati

While the nation waited for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address to the nation, anxiously counting the minutes before his “important message”, speculation spiralled – would it be about Emergency, bringing back Dawood Ibrahim or killing Masood Azhar?

As the designated hour of 12 noon came and went, jokes on Twitter gathered pace. With memories of that fateful November 2016 evening, when Modi announced the demonetisation of high-value currency notes, still fresh, jokes about people running to the ATM and counting cash started doing the rounds.