Best tweets: Twitter rolls over laughing after Modi compares Prakash Singh Badal to Nelson Mandela

As some one said on Twitter, Mandela (left) meets Vasco Da Gama (right)

October 11, 2015, NewsCrunch

For Indians feeling low after the narrow loss to South Africa in cricket, there was some comic relief on Twitter.

PM Modi posted a tweet comparing Punjab chief minister Prakash Singh Badal, who was visiting him, to South African icon Nelson Mandela.
   
Modi also explained his reasoning: Badal had spent long years in prison and that made him the Nelson Mandela of India.

Badal claims that he has spent 17 years of his life in jails as a political prisoner - first in the civil liberty agitation, then during Emergency and finally in 1980s when Punjab went through a turbulent phase. Many have disputed this account and say he spent far less time in jail than it is reported.

Whatever the truth of the claim or the lack of, it Twitter did not take to kindly Modi comparing Badal to Mandela. Badal faces serious corruption and nepotism charges and under this watch Punjab has gone to drugs.

Badal Sahab is sitting here...he is the Nelson Mandela of India. He has spent so many years in prison & that too for political reasons: PM

— PMO India (@PMOIndia) October 11, 2015

Historic pic Nelson Mandela greeting with Vasco-De-Ggama. #YoBadalSoMandelapic.twitter.com/2CbnZr2WWX

— Sameer Gupta (@sameergupta84) October 11, 2015

'If Badal is Mandela, Anu Malik composes original songs'#YoBadalSoMandelahttp://t.co/8XXy5wW9Bwpic.twitter.com/FV7M65yVEx

— scroll.in (@scroll_in) October 11, 2015

Historic pic Nelson Mandela greeting with Vasco-De-Ggama. #YoBadalSoMandelapic.twitter.com/2CbnZr2WWX

— Sameer Gupta (@sameergupta84) October 11, 2015

Indian Joan of Arc fighting for Hindutva ideology...@vinaydokania@DrunkVinodMehta@silva1111799#YoBadalSoMandelapic.twitter.com/BG3V5J8aEz

— ajithkumar (@ajithfst) October 11, 2015

Pic1: Nelson Mandela of India Pic2: William Shakespeare of India #YoBadalSoMandela&# 10;Thnx. pic.twitter.com/01xrU9K07M

— ईमानदार चायवाला (@VoiceOfPM) October 11, 2015

Mitron, Bal T ain't here. But he is the Abraham Lincoln of India. Both fought the Southerners. #YoBadalSoMandelapic.twitter.com/q4uGmCNr3H

— Srivatsa (@srivatsayb) October 11, 2015

Badal is Nelson Mandela and Drugs are Nectar #YoBadalSoMandelapic.twitter.com/9DVK83D4M2

— Aarti (@aartic02) October 11, 2015

#YoBadalSoMandela Mandela after hearing about the modi's comment 😂 pic.twitter.com/oB9acpKfPb

— asgardian (@itsSayedYaseen) October 11, 2015

#YoBadalSoMandelaIf Badal is Nelson Mandela, according to PM ,then soon he can declare Sakshi Maharaj as Gandhiji pic.twitter.com/kMXpviocVF

— Anurag Pandey (@anak2422anak) October 11, 2015

Arbaaz Khan is the @rogerfederer of India 😭 #OkSorry#YoBadalSoMandelapic.twitter.com/FfbghvoKav

— कोमल :) (@Komal_Indian) October 11, 2015

Really worried. What if South Africa snaps diplomatic ties with us? #YoBadalSoMandela

— Pawan Khera (@Pawankhera) October 11, 2015

Modi leaked the BEE test paper. #YoBadalSoMandelapic.twitter.com/9Ra9T8VWpc

— Autumn2487 (@A2687) October 11, 2015

If ( Prakash Singh Badal == Nelson Mandela ) then ( @chetan_bhagat == William Shakespeare); #YoBadalSoMandela

— Aman Kajaria (@amankajaria) October 11, 2015