'Delulu', 'Clock it': 'Cockroach' protest brings Gen Z slang to India's parliament
Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda, meanwhile, invoked the viral protest catchphrase "waste-guna-huiya" - a deliberately nonsensical meme popularised during the demonstrations - to poke fun at the government.Government lawmakers embraced the internet's lexicon too. Bansuri Swaraj of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declared that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had "clocked it" - Gen Z slang for getting something right or spotting the solution - by introducing the law. Moments later, she was using "delulu" herself.It was an unusual moment.
- ▪Congress leader Deepender Singh Hooda, meanwhile, invoked the viral protest catchphrase "waste-guna-huiya" - a deliberately nonsensical meme popularised during the demonstrations - to poke fun at the government.Government lawmakers embraced
- ▪Bansuri Swaraj of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) declared that Prime Minister Narendra Modi had "clocked it" - Gen Z slang for getting something right or spotting the solution - by introducing the law.
- ▪Moments later, she was using "delulu" herself.It was an unusual moment.
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'Delulu', 'Clock it': 'Cockroach' protest brings Gen Z slang to India's parliamentImage source, AFPImage caption, Tens of thousands of young people participated in the protests led by the Cockroach Janta PartyByZoya MateenBBC News, DelhiPublished24 minutes agoThe language of India's young, perpetually-online population has finally reached one of its oldest institutions.Days after a youth-led protest movement forced the resignation of education minister Dharmendra Pradhan, India's parliament found itself speaking the protesters' language."Delulu." "FOMO." "Clock it."Until recently, those words belonged to Instagram comment sections, group chats and meme pages.
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