After the BJP released a poster showing Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as “Ravan” (the mythological demon king in Ramayana), calling him “evil” and “anti-dharma”, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Thursday slammed the BJP over the graphic.
In a post on X, Priyanka Gandhi wrote, “Most respected @narendramodi ji and @JPNadda, to what level of degradation do you want to take politics and debate? Do you agree with the violent and provocative tweets being posted from the official Twitter handle of your party? Not much time passed and you took a vow of uprightness. Have you forgotten oaths like promises?”
The BJP released the poster on Thursday after the Congress released one, a day earlier, which showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, with the text written as ‘PM Narendra Modi as Jumla Boy BJP presents’.
The caption in the post read, “Going to hit the election rally soon.”
This was followed by the BJP’s poster, which was posted on its official X handle, that showed Gandhi with several heads with the title “Bharat Khatre Mein Hai – A Congress party production. Directed by George Soros”.
The caption read, “The new age Ravan is here. He is evil. Anti dharma. Anti Ram. His aim is to destroy Bharat.”
Reacting to this, Congress general secretary in charge of communications Jairam Ramesh, who said, it 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,” the Congress leader also asserted.
Later, Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas B V posted another poster on X portraying PM Modi as “MODANAV”.
“The new age MODANAV is here. He is Evil. Anti Democracy. Anti Constitution. Anti People. Anti Humanity. His only aim is to destroy Bharat and the idea of INDIA,” he said on X along with the poster titled “Hindustan Khatre mein hai – MODANAV. A Bharat Jumlebaaj Party production. Directed by Param Mitra Adani.”
Meanwhile, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal called the graphic of Rahul Gandhi posted by BJP, “shameful”.
“No words are enough to condemn the ‘shameful’ graphic on the BJP handle comparing 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,” Venugopal posted on X.