Happy Republic Day! You might have noticed that the national festival of India has fallen on a Sunday, which a regular off day for many employees. Noting that Republic Day is a listed holiday on work calendars, be it banks or corporates, job-goers would have wanted to use this entitled holiday for their personal plans. However, they learned that Republic Day 2025 didn’t give them an opportunity to go on a long weekend trip because it a coincided with their routine holiday, a Sunday,
Those who might have thought about making personal plans if the day fell on a working day were a little disappointed about Republic Day falling on a Sunday this year. They expressed how they were feeling on learning that this occasion was observed on Sunday and not a working day. Netizens took help of nothing else but memes to react to this moment.
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X users triggered a meme fest on the social media platform. From film-inspired dialogue memes to classic templates, internet users uploaded a wide range of reactions to share the feeling of losing an extra holiday, which they could have claimed if the national celebration fell on a working day instead of Sunday.
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Also, netizens took a dig at the recent remarks that went viral about extensive work hours. Yes, they shared memes suggesting Infosys co-founder Narayana Murthy and L&T chairman SN Subrahmanyan would be happy to see an entitled holiday overlapping with the regular non-working day of the week.
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India observed Republic Day on Friday last year, while the first celebration of this festival was marked on Thursday, January 26, 1950.
While these are lighthearted reactions on Republic Day, the government has issued a holiday to its citizens with the aim commemorate the national festival by unfurling the Indian tricolour flag and saluting it. Notably, the day is observed remembering the adoption of the Constitution of India on January 26, 1950.
