22.11.13

Another #Feku ?

Lush green fields stretch till the horizon, smooth black-top highways, a fancy tractor parked in a freshly-tilled farm — in the midst of it all a smiling Shivraj Singh Chouhan hard-sells a transformed MP to voters.
The advertisements looked perfect till Congress butted in with a scoop to claim that the swaying stretches of unending green in the pictures were located in Iran. The road featured was a West Bengal expressway and the tractor image a straight lift from the promos of a US farm equipment company.
“Shabas feku number 2”, the latest Congress advertisement screamed taking the war between the two parties to the next decibel level. A sheepish BJP didn’t know where to look.
Union minister Harish Rawat first called the bluff. Describing how the CM was trying to make fake development claims on the basis of pictures downloaded from the world-wide web, a triumphant Digvijay posted “Is MP CM Shivraj Singh Chouhan competing with Modi to be feku no. one?” He claimed he had more evidence of photographs from Spain and America being passed off as those from MP. He would make the links public soon. A later Congress advertisement was even scathing and tore into its rival’s campaign calling the CM as ‘fake’ as his campaign.
BJP media in charge Hitesh Vajpayee was quick to rise to Chouhan’s defence. Congress was trying to give an ugly turn to what essentially was the CM’s vision for a developed Madhya Pradesh., he said. “We may not have reached there but this is where Shivraj Singh Chouhan, given a third chance, can take the state. This is what the ad means,” he said.

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