Rajasthan Congress leader moves court over BJP’s Rahul Gandhi poster
A photograph of Gandhi morphed as Ravan was put out by the Bharatiya Janata Party's official handle on X and has led to widespread criticism
A Congress leader in Rajasthan has moved court against BJP president JP Nadda and its IT cell head Amit Malviya over a BJP social media post showing its leader Rahul Gandhi as “a new age Ravan”.
Jaswant Gurjar, general secretary of the Congress Rajasthan unit, called for a case to be filed against both BJP leaders for false imputation against another person, defamation, and intentional insult.
He filed the petition at the Jaipur Metropolitan Court-11, which, he said, will hear the arguments on the plea on October 9.
A photograph of Gandhi morphed as Ravan was put out by the Bharatiya Janata Party's official handle on X and has led to widespread criticism.
The Congress has called it “unacceptable” and "downright dangerous".
The petition
"The petition has been admitted by the court and the hearing has been scheduled on October 9," Gurjar said.
"The accused publicised the post deliberately with ill-intention on October 5 and the aim of the accused is to insult and harm the goodwill of the Congress and people associated with it and to make political gains," the plea said.
The petition said the BJP leaders deliberately presented Gandhi as anti-Ram and anti-religion to instigate people against him.
The Congress has staged protests against the poster at several places across the country.
The poster showed Gandhi with several heads. It also named George Soros, a Hungarian-born American financier.
The BJP post along with the poster said: “The new age Ravan is here. He is evil. Anti-Dharma. Anti-Ram. His aim is to destroy Bharat.”
Soros, a philanthropist and activist, had come under fire from the BJP after he criticised Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the wake of a report by US short-seller Hindenburg Research on the Adani group.
(With agency inputs)