BJP Kicks Up Controversy After Posters Depict Party State Prez As Saviour Krishna While UP Is Draupadi Being Disrobed

A BJP worker, Rupesh Pandey's attempt to seek publicity by creating a poster depicting party's state president and MP, Keshav Prasad Mourya, as Krishna, and opposition party leaders, including Akhilesh Yadav, Rahul Gandhi and Mayawati, as Kauravas, attempting to disrobe Draupadi (UP State), may have done the trick for him but has created a stir in the political circles in UP.

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Pandey, who hails from Varanasi, has plastered the walls around his office and home with his controversial poster and has also circulated it on the social media by posting it on his Facebook page. The 'cheer haran' poster shows Rahul, Mayawati, Akhilesh, Asaduddin Owaisi and Azam Khan pulling the sari of 'Draupdi' (UP state) and a smiling Keshav, with sudershan chakra, looking upon them.

"My regret is that I could not get a hoarding made for this poster before Keshav ji's visit to Varanasi today", said Pandey. Claiming that he had presented the "real picture" of UP through his poster, Pandey said, "Keshav means Krishna and he will free UP from the prevailing anarchy (arajakta) of SP, BSP, Congress and the likes of Owaisi".

"I've appropriately given titles to the loose ends of the 'sari' by what these political parties represent in reality", said Pandey adding that while corruption is synonymous with BSP, poverty and unemployment is linked to Congress, communalism to Azam Khan, goondaraj to Akhilesh and anti nationalism to Owiasi.

Dubbing the poster as a "cheap publicity" stunt, Congress's UP vice president, Upendra Singh, said it actually exposes the mental bankruptcy of the BJP and its workers. "Keshav is a criminal with nearly 15 cases pending against him and yet he is being projected him a Krishna", said Singh while adding that the poster is an attempt to draw the public attention away from real issues, including Modi's promise of 'acche din'.

The SP too hasn't taken the poster lightly with party's spokesperson Rajendra Chaudhary dubbing it as an "insult to god". He said for political gains BJP is insulting gods and are making a mockery of democracy.

When contacted Keshav claimed that he hadn't seen the poster so he could not comment on it. "I have heard about it but haven't yet seen it", he said.

The social media too hasn't taken too kindly to the poster, which has attracted over 100 likes, 7 shares and 45 comments on Pandey's Facebook page. Taking a jibe at BJP, a Facebook user has asked Pandey as to what his party has done for woman security, except making a "10th pass" woman a minister. Another user has said that it was only the SP that had started 1090 women's helpline to help women in distress.