Bhopal: Controversy erupted just before AICC chief Rahul Gandhi touched down in Bhopal on Friday when a poster went up, showing PM Narendra Modi as Ravana, and Rahul as Rama. Congress condemned it, and police took the poster down.Only a day ago, there was a row over another banner that claimed ‘Ram Bhakt Rahul will build Ram Mandir in Ayodhya through consensus”. Congress said it was the handiwork of “enthusiastic local workers”.The Ravana poster appeared on a busy road, just one bus-stop away from the state Congress headquarters, early Friday morning. Photos of it went viral. It showed PM Modi as Ravana.BJP chief Amit Shah, Union ministers Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley, Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal, Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath and former CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan were depicted as the other heads of Ravana. So were industrialist Anil Ambani and fugitive jewellery designer Nirav Modi. The poster depicted Rahul as Lord Ram taking aim at ‘Ravana’.The administration acted swiftly and sent a strong contingent of police to pull it down. State Congress spokesman Ravi Saxena said, “This was the work of some enthusiastic party worker. Congress party condemns this and has no connection with the poster. Narendra Modi is the Prime Minister of the country and we do not support people involved in such activities. Congress party does not favour such propaganda.”Outraged, the Madhya Pradesh BJP accused Congress of insulting Prime Minister Narendra Modi and filed a complaint at MP Nagar police station.“This is highly objectionable. The way Congress leaders are insulting Prime Minister Narendra Modi is condemnable. PM Modi represents the country and Congress has no right to cross the limit. BJP will not tolerate this insult. We demand immediate arrest of the culprits,” said BJP state spokesperson Rajneesh Agrawal. BJP national vice-president of youth wing Rahul Kothari said, “It is objectionable and shameful to portray a person holding a constitutional post in such a way. It would have been better if Rahul Gandhi were shown as Ravana for making baseless allegations to save his family from corruption charges.”

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