By IANS
Bhopal : A poster war between the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress in Madhya Pradesh has cost a police constable dearly. He was suspended after “objectionable posters” came up on the walls of Chief Minister Shivraj Singh’s bungalow here.
Posters carrying the photograph of Masood Azhar, founder of Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorist outfit, were found pasted outside the bungalow here Saturday. Chouhan used to live there before shifting to the chief minister’s house.
A statement below the photograph in the posters read in Hindi: “Kya yeh tumhare mama lagte hain jo isko Kandahar tak chhod aaye?” (Is Azhar Masood your maternal uncle that you escorted him safely up to Kandahar?)
Masood Azhar was set free by the BJP-led government of Atal Bihari Vajpayee to secure the release of 179 passengers of an Indian Airlines flight hijacked to Kandahar in Afghanistan in 1999.
Then foreign minister Jaswant Singh was among those who flew in the plane that ferried Azhar and two others from New Delhi to Kandahar.
The posters took the police by surprise. The posters were removed, and the constable who was on duty at the bungalow that day was suspended for dereliction of duty.
“We are investigating the matter,” Bhopal Police Superintendent Jaideep Prasad told IANS.
The BJP blamed the Congress for the posters. Manak Agarwal, the state Congress spokesman, said it was a reply to a similar act by the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM).
The poster war between the two parties started last month in Indore when BJYM workers barged into the Congress office to put up posters of Afzal Guru, the prime accused in the terror attack on parliament. The poster asked the Congress-led government why the man was not hanged despite the apex court’s orders.