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:
"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.
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