A day after the BJP lost the Assembly polls in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh, a poster criticising Prime Minister Narendra Modi and praising Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath came up at Bandariyabagh crossing in Hazratganj on Wednesday, prompting the Lucknow police to lodge an FIR against the organisation.
The police are now hunting for those who put up the poster. The names of the office-bearers of the outfit is not mentioned in the FIR.
As per reports, some commuters spotted the poster bearing photos of Narendra Modi and Yogi Adityanath on different sides.
Below Modi’s picture, it was written ‘Jumlebazi ka naam Modi’ and while Yogi was hailed as ‘Hindutva brand ka naam Yogi’. The poster was displayed by an outfit with the name of Uttar Pradesh Nav Nirman Sena.
As news reached senior police officials, an instruction was given to Lucknow police to remove the poster and initiate legal action. Subsequently, Park Road police outpost incharge Firoz reached the spot and took the poster into custody.
Giving details, Hazratganj SHO Radharaman Singh said that the poster faced the side of Raj Bhawan Road and so a case was registered at Hazratganj police station under sections 505 IPC (statements tantamount to public mischief), section 88 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and 2/3 Public Property Act. The case was registered against Uttar Pradesh Nav Nirman Sena headed by Amit Jani. It is reported that the police brass was hauled up for laxity by the state government. For hours, the cops were in a state of fix to find out sections of IPC to be imposed. The police officers also had to tax their brains a lot to decide if the chief of the organisation should be named in the case or not.