After BJP Leader As Krishna, Now Posters Showing Mayawati As Godess Kali Surface In UP

An FIR has been registered by Uttar Pradesh Police after a poster, depicting BSP supremo Mayawati as Goddess Kali surfaced at a rally in Hathras district on Sunday.

Hindustan Times

The poster showed the BSP chief holding the severed head of HRD Minister Smriti Irani, while taking on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.

It was put up during an event to mark the 125th birth anniversary of B R Ambedkar. Even though the police have filed FIRs against two people including the organiser of the event and the creator of the poster, the BSP distanced itself from the controversial depiction.

PTI

BJP however launched a strong attack against the BSP and Mayawati. ¡°The poster depicts the mental bankruptcy of BSP chief Mayawati. Our workers showed admirable restraint despite provocation,¡± said UP BJP spokesperson Vijay Bahadur Pathak.

Incidentally, this also comes days after another poster, this time depicting UP BJP chief Keshav Prasad Maurya as Lord Krishna triggered a political row in the state which will go to polls next year.

TOI

The poster had shown leaders including Mayawati, Akhilesh, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi, UP minister Azam Khan, and AIMM MP Asaduddin Owaisi stripping UP, while Maurya, shown as Krishna, with the ¡®Sudarshan Chakra¡¯ in one hand, trying to protect it.