'Bengaluru's Silk Board junction will now be called Coke Studio': Internet after Gadkari's musical horns announcement

Several social media posts mentioned Bengaluru's Silk Board junction, which is infamous for its traffic snarls. (Representational image)

After Union road transport and highways minister Nitin Gadkari said he is mulling a new legislation that would permit the sounds of Indian musical instruments to be used as horns for vehicles, of all cities, netizens from Bengaluru (followed by those of Delhi and Mumbai) seem to be least enthusiastic about it.

Several such posts mentioned Bengaluru's Silk Board junction, which is infamous for its traffic snarls. Hilarious posts have been flooding social media about how the city would change for the worse if the law is implemented.

"Bengaluru's Silk Board junction will now be called Coke Studio," commented X influencer Sagar (@sagarcasm). "In Delhi-Bengaluru, it will look like multiple barats on the road, and people from NCR will create their own music band of vehicles," wrote Ayush Lekhwar (@ayush_lekhwar).

Another X user, Avinash Bengaluru (@meavinash6262), said, "I want Kantara's shehnai Varaha Roopam every time I press the horn."

"New trend in Bengaluru Silk Board: traffic music jugalbandi," added @Noisky97.

Here are a couple more responses to the "musical" announcement:

Musical HornsIndian babus are a useless lot who think they know everything just because they cracked an exam by cramming the subject! Politicians are next in linethey implement such absurd ideas!Remember the days when you started hating music simply because you heard it too pic.twitter.com/WrnKMKKrPz

Citizens Movement, East Bengaluru (@east_bengaluru) April 22, 2025

@lajort if this is true then i guess, bengaluru and Mumbai could be the two music capitals of india, where people would be treated to free instrumental orchestra live for free on a daily basis! Mayukh (@mslaltoo) April 22, 2025

"I am planning to make a law that the horns of all vehicles should be in Indian musical instruments so that it is pleasant to hear. Flute, tabla, violin, harmonium," Gadkari had said on April 22. The minister was speaking at an event in New Delhi, but it is not the first time he has proposed such a law in the country.

In 2021, Gadkari had said he was planning to introduce a law to make sound of Indian musical instruments mandatory as a horn for vehicles.