Everything is fair in love and war and when it's poll war, half-truths and full lies become rule of the game. A recent hoarding put up by BJP in Jaipur has become a contentious issue. The hoarding has a photograph of a sulking farmer saying that land of 19,000 farmers will be auctioned due to non-payment of loan – Nahi sahega Rajasthan (Rajasthan will not tolerate).
The hoarding with photograph of the farmer catches eyes of every passerby. But the farmer who ‘modelled' for BJP in the photograph claims that his photo has been used without his knowledge. Bhaskar.com has done a detailed report on this.
“I have got 200 bighas of land and I have not taken loan till date. So there is no question of auctioning of my land. They have used my photo without my permission and it is causing loss of respect among my fellow villagers,” said a dejected Madhuram of Ramdevra village in Jaisalmer, 750 kms from Jaipur where his photo was used.
Madhuram threatened to file defamation case against BJP for misusing his photo and bringing disgrace to him.
How the issue came into notice of Madhuram ?
Madhuram came to know about the hoarding when a youth from his village returned from Jaipur. He saw photograph of Madhuram on the hoardings and shared it on whats app groups. Madhuram's son saw one of those whats app messages and showed it to Madhuram. Both son and father are now angry at BJP for letting him down in eyes of society.
“I don't know about Kisan Credit Card. I have never taken loan in my life. BJP should immediately remove my photo,” Madhuram reiterated.
The president of BJP Kisan Morcha and member of parliament Bhagirath Choudhary said that farmers are facing auction of their land as Congress government has not fulfilled its promise of loan waiver.
“The content of the hoarding is true picture of the fact. However, I have no idea about the photograph used,” said Choudhary.
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