Rahul Gandhi as ’Ravan’, PM as ‘biggest liar’: BJP, Congress engage in poster war
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New Delhi, Oct 06, 2023: Congress general secretary in charge of communications Jairam Ramesh on Thursday slammed the Bharatiya Janata Party over a poster shared by the party showing Rahul Gandhi with several heads. The BJP released Rahul Gandhi’s poster a day after the Congress posted a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi on X with the caption "The Biggest Liar" and another calling him a "Jumla Boy" who was "going to hit the election rally soon".
Taking strong offence to the BJP’s move, Ramesh took to X and said the poster is intended to incite and provoke violence against the former Congress chief whose father and grandmother were assassinated by forces that want to divide India.
"What is the real intent of an atrocious graphic portraying Rahul Gandhi as Ravan by the BJP’s official handle? It is clearly intended to incite and provoke violence against a Congress MP and a former President of the party, whose father and grandmother were assassinated by forces that want to divide India," he said in a post on X.
"It is one thing for the PM to give evidence daily of being a pathological liar and of suffering from a narcissistic personality disorder. But for him to get his party to produce something this obnoxious is not just completely unacceptable, but is downright dangerous," Ramesh said.
"We will not be intimidated," he asserted.
On X, the BJP captioned the poster "Bharat Khatre Mein Hai - A Congress party production. Directed by George Soros".
"The new age Ravan is here. He is Evil. Anti Dharma. Anti Ram. His aim is to destroy Bharat," the BJP said on X.
Reacting to the poster, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said in a post in Hindi on X, "Most respected @narendramodi ji and shri @JPNadda ji, what level do you want to take politics and debate to? Do you agree with the violent and provocative tweets being posted from the official Twitter handle of your party?"
"Not much time has passed when you took a vow of uprightness. Have you forgotten the oaths taken just as the promises made?" she asked.
Echoing Ramesh and Priyanka, AICC general secretary, organisation, KC Venugopal also said, "No words are enough to condemn the shameful graphic on the BJP handle comparing Sh. Rahul Gandhi ji to Ravana."
"Their nefarious intentions are clear, they want to murder him. He, who lost his grandmother and father to assassinations. They withdrew his SPG protection to score petty political points. After evicting him from his secure residence, they haven’t allocated another house that he has requested for," he said.
"All this points to a well-planned conspiracy of the BJP to eliminate their fiercest critic, someone who attacks the very core of their hate-filled ideology," Venugopal further said.
Earlier too, both parties had launched cartoon strips against leaders of both the opposing parties on social media.
Courtesy: India Today