Mumbai: Large parts of India’s financial capital are facing a major power outage since around 10 AM this morning. In a tweet, Brihanmumbai Electricity Supply and Transport (BEST) attributed the powercut to “TATAs incoming electric supply failure”, writing: “The electric supply is interrupted due to TATAs incoming electric supply failure.”
There has been a power outage in the entire Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) region. In fact, due to the power cut in many areas, Mumbai was stand still. Soon after the incident, there was a flood of memes in social media on this incident.
Several suburban trains on the central line and the western line have been suspended, while traffic signals in some areas have stopped working too. The unprecedented, large-scale power outage has set the hashtag #powercut trending high on Twitter. The microblogging platform has been flooded with memes since the power supply was interrupted.
Take a look:
Amitabh Bachchan was one of the first celebrities to react on the power outage in the city
T 3688 – Entire city in power outage .. somehow managing this message .. keep calm all shall be well ..
— Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) October 12, 2020
Hahaha. #2020 #yougottalovetheinternet pic.twitter.com/cJb7why9zI
— Abhishek 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧 (@juniorbachchan) October 12, 2020
Another one. 🤣🤣 https://t.co/JzZu5dlOqb
— Abhishek 𝐁𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧 (@juniorbachchan) October 12, 2020
https://twitter.com/RichaChadha/status/1315539230517460993
It’s a tense situation 🙈😂 #powercut pic.twitter.com/3Eh8OYPApf
— kunal kemmu (@kunalkemmu) October 12, 2020
Chillax everyone, hota hai kabhi kabhi. Have a candle lit lunch . https://t.co/V8n6EDOvNV
— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena) October 12, 2020
At the same time, Kangana Ranaut taunted the Maharashtra government on the pretext of power cut in Mumbai. Kangana has shared a photo of Sanjay Raut and standup comedian Kunal Kamra, in which Kunal is giving Sanjay a miniature JCB machine.
#Powercut in Mumbai, meanwhile Maharashtra government क-क-क…….कंगना । pic.twitter.com/sktcXOihq7
— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) October 12, 2020
Chillax everyone, hota hai kabhi kabhi. Have a candle lit lunch . https://t.co/V8n6EDOvNV
— Raveena Tandon (@TandonRaveena) October 12, 2020
Let us tell you last month BMC ransacked the illegal construction in Kangana’s Pali Hill office, in which the JCB machine emerged as a symbol.
Many people also vented their anger on the power cut in Mumbai through social media.
#Powercut, #Mumbai and #poweroutage are just some of the hashtags that are trending on Twitter amid the power failure that has disrupted transport in Maharashtra’s capital. Adani Electricity, a major power supplier in the city, said is it “currently supplying to critical services in Mumbai”.