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Now, BJP objects to Congress banner on Bofors

Bharatiya Janata Party general secretary Narendra Modi today took strong exception to some hoardings put up by the Congress eulogising the Bofors gun on Rajiv Gandhi's birth anniversary on Friday.

It remains to be seen if the chief election commissioner takes suo moto notice of these hoardings which, Modi told reporters in New Delhi, exploited Indian soldiers who are shown saying 'Rajiv Gandhi zindabad' [long live] and saluting the late prime minister.

The BJP politician displayed at the press conference a copy of a leading national daily which published a photograph of the hoarding on its front page yesterday.

Asked if the BJP or the National Democratic Alliance would take up the issue with the Election Commission, he said: "We will wait for the Congress to act first."

Modi said that though the poster displayed at Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's rally at Karnal was not put up by the BJP, but was prepared and displayed by an artist, Vajpayee had himself taken exception to its display.

While the Karnal poster showed Vajpayee saluting the soldiers, the Congress hoarding showed the soldiers saluting Rajiv Gandhi, he said.

The display of the Congress flag on the Bofors gun with the soldiers saying 'Rajiv Gandhi zindabad' was blatant exploitation of the Kargil martyrs, he added.

UNI

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