New Delhi, Oct 5: The poster war between the Congress and the BJP intensified on social media on Thursday with the ruling party sharing a poster on X portraying Rahul Gandhi as a “new age Ravan”, evoking strong criticism from the opposition party which termed it “unacceptable” and “downright dangerous”. The poster came out a day after the Congress posted on X a picture of Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the caption “The Biggest Liar” and another calling him a “Jumla Boy” who was “going to hit the election rally soon”.
In a sharp retort, the BJP on its official handle on X shared a poster of Gandhi with several heads with the title “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. Taking strong offence, Congress general secretary in charge of communications Jairam Ramesh 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,” he asserted.
AICC general secretary, organisation, K C 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. 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. (PTI)
