The
congress has been under
fire from the
bharatiya janata party (BJP) after
telangana saw the posting of
posters depicting former
party president
sonia gandhi as a goddess. The images on the
posters depict
sonia gandhi as a goddess wearing a jewelled crown. Additionally, a map of
telangana can be seen rising from her right palm in the posters. Shehzad Poonawala, a
bjp spokeswoman, called the action of the
congress workers "shameful" and claimed that the grand old
party has always viewed its "parivar" as being larger than the nation and its citizens.
After a
congress Working Committee (CWC) meeting that was held in
hyderabad on
sunday ended, the
posters were placed up. The purpose of the gathering was to talk about issues linked to the state's approaching
assembly elections. Senior members of the
congress, including
sonia gandhi,
rahul Gandhi,
priyanka Gandhi, and
party leader
mallikarjun Kharge, were present at the meeting.
Poonawala claimed on the microblogging platform X that the
congress regularly insults Bharat. He said, "First
congress leaders like Aradhna Mishra said Bharat Mata ki
jai is against
party discipline; in the past BD Kalla has said say
sonia Mata ki
jai not BMKJ. Now
congress equates
sonia gandhi to Bharat Mata just like they had equated Indira to
india ! This is utterly shameful."