Characters from epics and movies take center stage in parliamentary voting campaigns

Amid the hotly contested Madhya Pradesh assembly elections, cross-party leaders have referred to various popular characters from Bollywood films and epics “Ramayan” and “Mahabharat” while trying to woo voters.

Following the controversy between former chief minister Kamal Nath and Digvijaya Singh over the distribution of assembly tickets, the party general secretary in charge of MP Randeep Surjewala has decided that the relationship between the two veteran leaders will be revealed by the characters. They tried to downplay the controversy, describing it as akin to a shared bond. 1975 Hindi film ‘Jai’ and ‘Veer’ Sholai.

An altercation broke out over Nath’s verbal abuse of “ripping his clothes” at party colleague Singh.

The roles of ‘Jai’ and ‘Veer’ in the blockbuster films were played by veteran actors Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra respectively.

Following Nath’s comments, the state’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party said that ‘Jai’ and ‘Veer’ were known as ‘thieves’ in the film.

Nath then called Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan the film’s lead villain ‘Gabbar’ and accused him of plundering the state through various scams.

Mr. Chauhan then said, “Congress leaders are talking about this duo (Mr. Nath and Mr. Singh) as Jai Veer. Now, this duo is not Jai Veer. There was ‘Mea Apne.’ “The people named ‘Siam’ and ‘Chain’ were fighting for ownership of their respective areas. This divided parliament can never benefit the nation,” the CM said.

At one of his campaign rallies, Mr. Chouhan likened the leaders of both the parties to the character ‘Dhritarashtra’ from ‘Mahabharat’, saying that the two set aside the party structure to establish their sons and take over the reins of the state. He said he placed it on .

On November 4, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while ridiculing Nath’s “clothes tearing” remark, said Congress leaders, their “dialogues” and announcements were all “cinematic”.

“The conversations of Congressional leaders are cinematic, the announcements are cinematic, the characters are cinematic. If the characters are cinematic, the scenes will naturally be cinematic,” he said.

Referring to this remark, the Prime Minister said there was a “tearing clothes” competition between the two Congress leaders.

This was just a “trailer”. After the victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party on December 3 (vote counting day), the true face of the Congress will be seen here and the real conflict within the Congress will unfold, he said.

“This is not a fight for the CM chairpersonship…This is a fight for the future of the sons who control the state assembly…The Congress is playing dynasty politics,” Modi said.

On the last day of election campaigning on Wednesday, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra described CM Chouhan as a “world-famous actor” who surpassed megastar Amitabh Bachchan, but added, “Someone is concerned about work. Whenever he speaks, he starts acting like (comedian) Asrani.”

She also slammed Prime Minister Modi for “crying” over the mistreatment he received from the opposition parties.

“Have you ever seen the Salman Khan movie ‘Tere Naam’ where you cry from start to finish? I say, let’s make a movie about PM Modi.” character The title is ‘Mere Naam’,” Vadra said.

Earlier, at a rally in Sunwell where Union Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia’s close aide and deputy minister Tulsiram Silawat was contesting, she claimed: They (the BJP) were taken to the Brashtachar (corruption) lok. ”

Amid the much-hyped polls, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge recently accused Prime Minister Modi and MP Chouhan of irregularities by three central agencies comprising the Enforcement Directorate and the Central Investigation and Income Tax Department. He said there was. punch pandav Who his party was fighting against (like the five brothers who are the central characters of Mahabharat).

He alleged that central agencies were entering the fray on behalf of the BJP.

Voting for the 230-member Madhya Pradesh Assembly will be held on Friday and counting will take place on December 3.