As the crucial second phase of Gujarat elections got underway, advertisements claiming Gujarat CM Narendra Modi and L K Advani were 'duping people in name of Hindutva'.
AHMEDABAD: As the crucial second phase of Gujarat elections got underway on Sunday morning, advertisements claiming Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi and senior BJP leader L K Advani were 'duping people in name of Hindutva' appeared in vernacular dailies here.
The advertisements published by Sardar Patel Utkarsh Samiti (an organisation formed by the rebels in the Gujarat-unit of the BJP) attempts to remind the readers the stand taken by the leaders on the Jinnah episode.
The advertisement in Gujarati language shows Modi performing `aarti' wearing shoes, while it depicts L K Advani clapping and enjoying at a cultural programme during his controversial visit to Pakistan. The title of the advertisement reads: 'The true face of BJP's fake-Hindutva has been revealed!'.
'The `Chela' (disciple) is like his `Guru'', reads the advertisement referring to Modi and his mentor Advani.
'Advani is the one who paid homage to (Pakistan's founder) Mohammed Ali Jinnah, responsible for the division of the country', it states.
The advertisements ask the people to recognise the face of Modi as even the Gujarat government's official magazine carried an article praising Jinnah.
'People are being cheated in the name of Hindutva', it adds.
On Saturday, advertisements showing semi-nude dancers performing at a state-government sponsored function had appeared in the newspapers.
In the past few days, a series of advertisements have been published by the Congress, BJP and Sardar Patel Utkarsh Samiti to send a political message to the people in the poll-bound state.
If the BJP tried to question Congress' steadfastness to check terrorism through its advertisements asking why Afzal Guru has not been hanged, the Congress had hit back with the advertisements of Masood Azhar, reminding people how the BJP-led NDA Government had gone to Kandhar to release dreaded terrorists.
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