{"id":6870,"date":"2025-12-24T09:04:26","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6870"},"modified":"2025-12-24T09:04:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T09:04:26","slug":"viral-poster-crowns-jebu-the-cat-as-surprise-homecoming-mascot-for-tarique-rahman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/?p=6870","title":{"rendered":"Viral Poster Crowns \u201cJebu\u201d the Cat as Surprise Homecoming Mascot for Tarique Rahman"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A tongue-in-cheek poster circulating on Bangladeshi social media has turned a ginger cat named <strong>\u201cJebu\u201d<\/strong> into an unlikely political mascot, proclaiming in Bangla that \u201cafter much speculation, Jebu has returned to the country \u2014 with Tarique Rahman.\u201d The graphic, watermarked by a satire page, pairs a large feline portrait with a smaller photo of a man sitting beside a fluffy cat, and a cutout of a suited figure walking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The meme landed amid feverish anticipation around BNP acting chairman <strong>Tarique Rahman\u2019s<\/strong> widely expected homecoming and instantly lit up feeds with jokes, fan edits, and playful debates about whether the pet would accompany him. Supporters amplified the image as a lighthearted symbol of return and renewal; critics dismissed it as meme-bait.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the poster references Rahman by name, there has been <strong>no official confirmation<\/strong> that a pet is traveling or that the images used are current. Still, the gag captured a rare, humorous beat in a high-stakes political week, underscoring how Bangladesh\u2019s online culture increasingly refracts hard news through memes, mascots, and satire \u2014 and how even a cat can pounce into the center of the national conversation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A tongue-in-cheek poster circulating on Bangladeshi social media has turned a ginger cat named \u201cJebu\u201d into an unlikely political mascot, proclaiming in Bangla that \u201cafter much speculation, Jebu has returned to the country \u2014 with Tarique Rahman.\u201d The graphic, watermarked by a satire page, pairs a large feline portrait with a smaller photo of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6871,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6872,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6870\/revisions\/6872"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hernet.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}