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it reflects how in a state with the same population of texas, the narrative of politics is being shaped through the utilization of AI
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**Chandigarh:** Punjab’s political battleground has currently taken an unusual form: Jurassic Park. The political discourse has turned away from governance, policy, economy, and law and order, towards dinosaurs.
It may have begun as a political jibe by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann during the early stages of his tenure—mocking the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) as a relic of the past—but the beleaguered SAD has spun it around into a “comeback” narrative, with a series of AI memes and social media posts highlighting its performance in the Tarn Taran byelection and Zila Parishad polls.
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The underlying message? Akalis will win the 2027 assembly polls.
“*Punjab ch dinosaur vaapis aa sakde ne, Akali nahi* (dinosaurs can return to Punjab, but the Akalis cannot),” Mann had been saying over the past few years. Several such statements by Mann resurfaced in 2025—both in rallies and speeches, rapidly entering the political discourse and circulating widely online.
In response, the Akalis have, in recent weeks, rolled out a full-blown digital meme campaign, with one of its popular lines being: “*Tu pher aen kari, Punjab ch dinosaur vi aange te Akali vee; saambh sakde ho te saambh leyo* (you wait and watch, both dinosaurs and Akalis will return to Punjab; handle them if you can).”
In one [AI-generated clip](https://www.facebook.com/groups/1661013744045523/permalink/4009447535868787/?rdid=sfFRKtG4kNPYGFyn&share_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fshare%2Fr%2F1CDgWTSBjj%2F#), party chief Sukhbir Badal walks confidently with a dinosaur, with a plaque saying “2027” hanging from its neck, a pointed reference to the party’s claim that it will win the 2027 assembly polls.
But it didn’t take long for the chief minister to fire back at the SAD campaign, claiming the party’s revival after years in the political wilderness. His response? “The Akalis want to take Punjab back to the Jurassic era, not towards progress.”
“It’s a lizard blown up as a dinosaur,” the chief minister quipped at a press conference last week.
The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) social media network also released a meme showing a lizard being blown up into a dinosaur, with Mann towering over it and Badal.
As the “Jurassic” narrative permeates Punjab politics, the Congress has termed the campaign “silly”. The state party chief, Amarinder Singh Raja Warring, said in an interview with a YouTube channel last week, “People will not vote for the Akalis because they are seeing Sukhbir being shown as moving around with a chained dinosaur; people might vote for them out of sheer sympathy.”