Twitter flagged off its jokes just as fast as India's first bullet train

Yesterday was a historical day for India as PM Narendra Modi flagged off his long-due and extremely ambitious project- the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High Speed Rail (HSR) train. With his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe,Modi laid down the foundation stone of the 508-km long train in Ahmedabad.

The project between Ahmedabad and Mumbai is expected to be completed by 2022 and is likely to traverse the distance between the two cities in around two hours making it India's first bullet train. 

The inauguration event was rather pompous and was a proud moment for the entire country as India is now the second country, to import the Japanese 'Shinkansen' bullet-train technology. 

Modi was on cloud nine at the event which was pretty evident through his speech, “Dreams push a country, society or individual forward. I congratulate every citizen of India for the groundbreaking ceremony of India's first bullet train. It is human-friendly and eco-friendly."  He also talked about how this one of a kind train would bring “convenience and safety, employment and speed.” 

Now the train would be ready by 2022 (hopefully), but Twitter has no calm. They got down to business as soon the inauguration took place. Memes and jokes started circulating all over the internet, thanks to the creativity of Twitterati. 

Some even managed to incorporate the ever-so-famous characters, Raj and Simran from ‘DDLJ' and the climax of the movie in their jokes. Leave it to Twitter to establish links between everything and anything!

After Bullet train, no more "ja jile apni jindagi" for Simran. Raj would reach Borivali by the time Amrish Puri completes the sentence.

— Anuj Gupta (@anujg) September 14, 2017

Had there been bullet train back in 90s, Simran would have to get married to Kuljeet instead of Raj.

— Swagshank (@zZoker) September 14, 2017

Imagine the 'Chaiya Chaiya' song from the movie Dil se!
Bullet train ke upar dance ð

— Swati Magdaline (@SwatiMagdaline) September 15, 2017

Bullet Train hey..
Kedi Jii Hey pic.twitter.com/mheNDkO9eq

— MADRAS CENTRAL (@MadrasCentraI) September 14, 2017

Life in the future with #BulletTrain -
Finish work in Ahmedabad at 5pm. Reach Mumbai at 7pm. Put booze till 9pm. Back to Ahmedabad at 11pm.

— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) September 14, 2017

The Bullet Train is dream come true!
Narendra Modi

The last time he had a dream, we had demonetization! :D

— Sanjiv Bhatt (IPS) (@sanjivbhatt) September 14, 2017

Dear Shinzo Abe Sir,
if you get time, pls send the ticket fares to Kejriwal ji in advance so he can approve Bullet train.

— Tajinder Bagga (@TajinderBagga) September 14, 2017

All this talk about Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Rail Project & #BulletTrain has got me thinking what Raj Thackeray once said: ððð pic.twitter.com/i5XvYCkp78

— Prerna Bakshi (@bprerna) September 14, 2017

Looking forward to the #BulletTrain.
IRCTC has 5 years to ensure that the booking takes less time than the journey.

— Ramesh Srivats (@rameshsrivats) September 14, 2017

Bullet train or no #BulletTrain .. bhai would still pull this off pic.twitter.com/aHNMtk6H42

— SwatKat (@swatic12) September 14, 2017

After Bullet train, no more "ja jile apni jindagi" for Simran. Raj would reach Borivali by the time Amrish Puri completes the sentence.

— Anuj Gupta (@anujg) September 14, 2017

Japs are so confident in their ability that they've given the exact date of bullet train - I fear they have underestimated Indian abilities

— The Bad Doctor (@DOCTORATLARGE) September 14, 2017

Something else that caught everybody's attention was the new phrase that Shinzo Abe coined to showcase the strengthening relationship between India and Japan- - ‘Jai Japan, Jai India'. 

He further said, “If we combine ‘Ja' from ‘Japan' and ‘I' from India, the word we get is ‘JAI'. If we work together, nothing is impossible. PM Modi and I will work towards realizing Jai Japan, Jai India.” 

Now since PM Modi is known for his fondness for acronyms and alliterations (remember SCAM- Samajwadi Party, Akhilesh Yadav, Congress and Mayawati), Twitter users could not help themselves but come up with new phrases. 

If we combine 'Ja' from 'Japan' and 'In' from 'India', the word we get is 'Jain'. Jain food will be available on the bullet train ð https://t.co/M5rDQAGhqU

— Karan Arora (@BatmanKaBhai) September 14, 2017

If we combine 'AB from Abe' and 'NA from Narendra' the word we get is "Ab-Na karo ye sab'. https://t.co/FFy9Y6uDl0

— Aladdin (@Alllahdin) September 14, 2017

Glad that Japanese PM has hinted at letting us pay the loan back in Acronyms. https://t.co/kpb1aAaQ4n

— Venkronym Naidu (@VenkronymNaidu) September 14, 2017

Abe Shinzo - Japan's "Ja" and India's "I" together sounds like "Jai" in Hindi.
Venkaiahism has attained epic proportion

— Sambit Nayak (@sambitlnt) September 14, 2017

Now, we can only hope that the train really gets ready by the expected date otherwise, the folks on Twitter wouldn't shy away from starting a trolling spree, all over again. And this time, it would be worse than ever.