Ranchi: In an open dare to the Raghubar Das government, the state Congress is launching a series of meme posts featuring the chief minister's footage with brand taglines in the wake of young tech entrepreneur Sarabpreet Singh getting arrested by cyber police for a similar upload.

The Congress uploaded two memes on Wednesday on its official twitter handle with a # hum bolega toh bologe ki bolta hai, a popular yesteryear Bollywood ditty. The Congress's twitter handle also tags @raghubardas (the chief minister's twitter handle) to ask CM ko gussa kyun aata hai (Why does the CM get angry).

Both videos show Das reacting angrily at meetings and then cut to light-hearted references to a Bollywood superstar with ads of a fizzy drink and a movie booking website and app that have taglines such as toofan sab ke andar hai and bhai ke biceps dekhe.

Talking to The Telegraph from Delhi, Sumit Kashyap, who handles the state Congress's social media platforms, said they had followed the directives of state Congress president Ajoy Kumar to "launch meme dares to CM saab."

"Since Ajoy Kumar ji is head of the state Congress, and it's on our official handle, let's see if the government arrests him or not," Kashyap said, referring to the Sarabpreet episode.

The youth, who had put up a light-hearted meme on chief minister with a scotch mint ad on April Fool's Day, was arrested last week for "uploading an objectionable video against the CM on Twitter" and released on bail on Tuesday, the entire episode displaying extreme touchiness on the part of the government machinery.

State Congress chief Ajoy Kumar said they would put up such videos daily. "I hope it's okay to joke in this country," he said. "In modern democracy, politicians have always been the object of jokes, as long as one is not factually wrong. I have followed Sarabpreet's case, and it is sad how he got stuck," he said, adding he offered Sarabpreet a job in their social media wing.

"We are with all such youths and people who put things in right perspective," he said.

Kashyap added their videos were designed on the same lines as Sarabpreet's, using taglines of popular brands (a fizzy drink, a movie booking website and app), giving the "government the scope to get copyright infringement cases filed against us".

In Sarabpreet's case, besides filing its own complaint, the government, its detractors have alleged, contacted scotch mint company owner Perfetti Van Melle India Pvt Ltd to file a trademark infringement complaint too.