Day before Chess Olympiad, BJP’s gambit: checkmate Stalin with PM posters | Political Pulse News,The Indian Express
Upset that billboards and banners on the Olympiad only featured CM Stalin and not the PM, BJP workers pasted Modi photos across the city
The political rivalry between the ruling DMK and the BJP has now spilled on to a different platform: the chessboard. On Wednesday, a day before the 44th edition of the Chess Olympiad that Narendra Modi is set to inaugurate in Chennai, BJP workers went around the city pasting photographs of the Prime Minister on billboards advertising the tournament.
On Wednesday, the BJP state leadership, upset that the billboards and banners only featured Chief Minister M K Stalin and the Olympiad’s veshti-adorning mascot Thambi, sent out teams of workers across the city, armed with the PM’s posters, generous amounts of glue – and cameras to capture the moment.
The BJP leaders said the billboards without the PM’s photographs were an “insult to the nation” since it was Modi, they insisted, who had provided Tamil Nadu the opportunity to hold the international event near Mamallapuram, around 58 kilometres south of Chennai.
“Let me remind CM @stalin that our PM @narendramodi Avl is the nation’s sole representative. Here we go!!!,” tweeted BJP office bearer Amar Prasad Reddy while sharing a video that has snatches of him pasting the PM’s posters on billboards across the city.
The DMK, however, insisted that its moves were well thought out.
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