The Congress unit in Jammu and Kashmir on Friday held a protest in Srinagar against the BJP over a poster on social media that showed Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as mythological character “Ravan”.
The BJP on Thursday released a poster 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.”
The Congress has slammed the rival party over the “atrocious” poster, calling it “downright dangerous”.
Led by former minister Yogesh Sawhney, scores of Congress workers took out a protest rally and raised slogans against the BJP and burnt its effigies.
“We condemn such acts of the BJP. The protest is to show our anger over the cheap act of BJP. We wanted to take a rally to the Raj Bhawan to hold protests there, but were prevented from doing so. Rahul ji is our leader and we cannot tolerate such language against him.” He is the leader of this country,” Sawhney said.
“The people of this country like him. The BJP is afraid of the growing love of the people towards Rahul ji, that is why it is adopting such tactics,” he said, as quoted by PTI.
After the BJP released the poster, Congress general secretary in charge of communications Jairam Ramesh, alleged that the poster intends to incite and provoke violence against the former Congress president.
“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.