Indore: In Indore, Madhya Pradesh, there was controversy regarding the tearing and distortion of the poster regarding PCC Chief Jitu Patwari. This filthy poster belonged to a much larger protest that Congress held with an allegation of corruption in the Indore Municipal Corporation. Congress members have levelled serious allegations against the BJP for this act, and this particular BJP worker tried cleaning the poster with water.
The mishap happened at the time that Congress was preparing for a big rally against municipal corruption; the party workers used banners and posters of Congress leaders like Jitu Patwari, former State President Arun Yadav, National Secretary Satyanarayana Patel and Sajjan Singh Verma. However, a mural of the original poster of Jitu Patwari was partially painted over with Mud, depicting a fake moustache and Tilak.
Congress’s leader of opposition in the assembly, Chintu Chouk, expressed his opinion that some supporter of Modi was behind the defacement and intended to insult the state president. On the other hand, City Congress President Surjit Chadha described the act lightly by saying that with the thousands of posters put up, such cases are bound to occur. But certain Congress leaders in and out of the media have now said off the record that the act of vandalism could have been by one of their own and that the party has splinter groups.
There was a Congress member who soon washed off the poster; however, the incident sparked curiosity as to the rivalry within the party. The act of vandalism and the clean-up afterwards depicts the concerns and dissatisfaction of some Congress members against Patwari’s leadership, which depicts a larger problem in the party’s camps in the state.
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