As polls near, BJP workers turn Advani into Lord Rama

A NEW AVATAR: Advani is spearheading BJP's campaign for the LS polls, armed with Lord Rama's bow and arrow.

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Lucknow: After Congress President Sonia Gandhi was depicted as Goddess Durga by some Congress workers recently, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers have put up hoardings in Kanpur depicting LK Advani as Lord Rama who is out to destroy the evil - seen as the Congress.

Advani is scheduled to address a Vijaya Sankalp (victory oath) Rally on Friday in Kanpur.

So it seems Advani, BJP's prime ministerial candidate, is spearheading the campaign for the Lok Sabha elections, armed with Lord Rama's bow and arrow.

"Posters have been put up depicting price rise as a demon with Sonia Gandhi one side and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on the others side with Advani out to slay the demon with an arrow. It just reflects the feeling of the workers and nothing more," says Satish Mahana, BJP MLA from Kanpur.

The posters of Advani have left the Congress fuming though not too long ago Congress supporters depicted their party President as Goddess Durga. Angry Congress workers also burnt an effigy of Advani in Kanpur.

"If these hoardings are not removed we will protest and show Advani black flags," says Congress worker Manish Kumar.

Apart from kick starting the campaign, Advani's Vijaya Sankalp Rally is being seen as BJP's attempt to revive the party in Uttar Pradesh, after it was virtually routed in the Assembly elections last year.

But factionalism in BJP's state unit doesn't seem to end and if sources are to be believed senior state BJP leader Kalyan Singh has chosen to stay away from Advani's rally.

Even as Advani is the new Lord Rama, in the forthcoming Lok Sabha elections - in the Hindi heartland perhaps for the first time the party would definitely miss their star campaigner and former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee who has announced his retirement from active politics.

(With inputs from Vishnu Rathore)