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Diet Coke as election symbol? Arvind Kejriwal’s Gen Z moment has the internet in splits

This comes amid the BJP also sharpening its digital outreach to the young people following the recent NEET-UG paper leak controversy.

Diet Coke as election symbol? Arvind Kejriwal’s Gen Z moment has the internet in splits

Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal revealed on a podcast that his favorite drink is Diet Coke, leading to jokes from the internet that he is a Gen Z favorite. Podcaster Sarthak Goswami joked that Kejriwal should use Diet Coke as his next election symbol, to which Kejriwal joked that BJP leaders would bring Diet Coke cans to Parliament if they learned of it.

The BJP is currently focused on digital outreach to younger voters, with Prime Minister Modi leading a coordinated campaign on Instagram. Kejriwal also joked that rebel AAP MP Raghav Chadha, who recently joined the BJP, was a spy sent by Kejriwal as a joke.

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