The poster war ahead of the 2017 Assembly polls continued to hog limelight with a fresh poster in Gorakhpur by BJP Minority Wing creating a controversy on Sunday.
The poster depicts local MP Yogi Adityanath riding a tiger while Opposition leaders like Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav, BSP chief Mayawati, AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi and Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi on donkeys. The slogan of the poster was 'Abki bar Yogi Sarkar'.
The man behind the poster, BJP Minority Wing executive member Irfan Ahmad said in Gorakhpur on Monday that they want to see the Yogi as Chief Minister of UP and everyone was sure that the BJP will storm to power after the 2017 polls.
The poster elicited immediate condemnation from rival parties against the BJP.
A few days bacl, a Congress worker came up with a poster showing Rahul Gandhi in police uniform. Terming Rahul as ' jan rakshak', the poster said 'mitega atyachar'. But the enthisiatic leader who summarily disowned by the party brass and served a show cause. It also showed the misdeed of other parties with CM patronising criminals and communal forces, Mayawati for corruption, BJP state chief Keshav Prasad Maurya for unleashing riots and AIMIM leader Owaisi for spreading hatred in the society.
Earlier, a BJP leader of Varanasi had circulated a poster in the social media depicting state chief Keshav Prasad Maurya as 'Krishna' and Opposition leaders as Kauravas. To reply to this, a BSP leader in Hathras brought out a poster of BSP chief Mayawati depicted as 'Maa Kali' crushing the RSS and BJP leaders under her feet.