These are not made of cotton, with text and pictures painted by hand – as you would have seen during election times prior to 1996-97 era. The banners that you see nowadays can be mass produced, they are made of glossy, synthetic plastic type material – can have pictures with digital image quality printed by machines.
These are the “coding” standards used –
Every one is called “Bhau”, “Sheth”, “Dada”, “Saheb” or “Rao” and every one is a “Karya Samrat”. There is lot of “urf” terminology used (in English - a.k.a or also-known-as)
So if you are a budding “nagar sevak” or even the 5 year old son of a “nagar sevak” – you will find 10 feet * 10 feet banners put on roads for occasions like birthdays, any major festivals etc, with probably 20-30 small size photos of people who are “shubhekshuk – or “compliments from” inserted at the bottom of the banner.
For MLA or a minister, the banners will be 30 feet by 10 feet – with full body size pictures – shown in different style/poses – one in the traditional white political dress, one with a suit in color, and the same one in black-and-white.
Taking inspiration from this, few of my Capgemini and alumni friends made up a 6*4 feet banner for one of our alumni member who was getting married – they actually put this up in the lane where this person (who is getting married), lives. Here is the actual picture of the banner put up in the Aundh area – I am sure the locals would have been amused!!!
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