The Gadchiroli district police in Maharashtra has registered a case against RJD leader Tejaswi Yadav for allegedly tweeting an objectionable post on his X account against PM Modi.
The police filed an FIR after Gadchiroli district BJP MP Milind Ramji Narote filed a complaint against the RJD leader alleging that Tejaswi Yadav posted an objectionable comment against the PM on X ahead of his Friday visit to Gaya, in Bihar.
The FIR was registered under Section 196 (promoting enmity between different groups), Section 356 (defamation), Section 352 (intentional insult with intent to provoke a breach of peace) and Section 353 (statements that cause public mischief) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, a police official said.
Just ahead of PM’s visit to Bihar, RJD leader Tejashwi Yadav had tweeted in a post on X on Friday morning in Hindi which read, “Today, a shop of lies and slogans will be set up in Gaya! The Prime Minister, with his reckless tongue, will create a mountain of lies and slogans in Gaya today, but the justice-loving people of Bihar will break these huge mountains of his lies and slogans like Dashrath Manjhi. Will you give an account of your 11 years and the 20 years of the NDA government?”
Along with his tweet, Tejaswi Yadav had shared a cartoon which depicts PM Modi behind a shop counter named ‘Prasiddh Jumle Ka Dukaan’ which translates as “infamous shop of frauds” It also carried messages claiming “a shop of lies and slogans will be set up in Gaya (Bihar).”
A line in the cartoon read, “Har vaade ke jumla hone ki 100% guarantee. (100% guarantee that every promise will be a fraud)”, written over a shop featuring PM Modi.
During his visit to Bihar on Friday, PM Modi had charged the INDIA bloc for “trying to protect infiltrators” and shielding those with a corruption taint. The comments came in the backdrop of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, which, the BJP claims, is needed to “remove names of illegal immigrants from Bangladesh, Nepal and Myanmar from the voters’ list”.