Fresh posters questioning the educational qualification of Prime Minister Narendra Modi surfaced in the national capital on Thursday. As per the allegations, some parts of Delhi had blue posters on the walls and pillars on the roadsides with the caption "Kya Bharat ke pradhan mantri padhe-likhe hone chahiye (Should the PM of India be educated)?" Meanwhile, the AAP has also launched a poster campaign with the slogan "Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao" on Thursday and banners in several languages have been put up across 22 states.
The posters had been released in 11 languages including Gujarati, Hindi, English, Punjabi, Telugu, Bengali, Oriya, Kannada, Malayalam and Marathi. The AAP claimed that Rajya Sabha MP Dr. Sushil Gupta and senior leader Anurag Dhanda detained by Haryana Police over poster campaign. Police also confiscated posters and detained dozens of workers of AAP in Pune, Ahmedabad, and other cities in the country.
It has become a crime to ask if the prime minister of the country should be educated… A police sub-inspector arrives soon after the posters were put up and removes the posters. It means that the PM and the entire BJP want to say that the country’s PM should be uneducated,” senior AAP leader and Rajya Sabha member Sanjay Singh said in a video statement. Singh’s statement was a reference to posters in Hindi that came up in parts of the national capital, which asked, “should India have an educated prime minister”. The AAP leader ended his message with an appeal to people to run a similar campaign on social media and elsewhere.
Meanwhile, AAP national convenor Gopal Rai also launched a poster campaign with the slogan "Modi Hatao, Desh Bachao" on Thursday and banners in several languages have been put up across 22 states including Punjab, Gujarat, West Bengal, Orissa, Asam, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala, Karnataka, Goa, and Maharashtra, and all Hindi speaking states like Rajasthan, MP, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, UP, HP, and Uttarakhand. The campaign was announced on March 23, on the martyrdom day of Shaheed-e-Azam Bhagat Singh, Shaheed Rajguru, and Shaheed Sukhdev.
“The poster campaign is a response to the government's failure to fulfil its promises to farmers, diluting labour laws, and oppressing students in universities. The youth of the country are unemployed, and women face the brunt of inflation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, is stubbornly dismantling the democratic structure of the nation and eliminating the opposition. This is a direct assault on India's democratic structure and constitution," Rai said.
"This campaign aims at sending the message across the nation about how the BJP has failed to fulfil its promises. Promises made to farmers have not been fulfilled yet. Instead of resolving the problems, the BJP is just trying to end democracy. So far, 22 states have put up these posters in different languages," he said. Rai further said that from April 10, similar posters would be put up at universities across the nation to make students aware about the campaign.
AAP on March 23 held a big public meeting at Jantar Mantar under the slogan 'Modi Hatao Desh Bachao', which was addressed by AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Bhagwant Mann.
