{"id":1056,"date":"2023-10-11T08:33:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T07:33:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2023-10-11T08:33:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-11T07:33:12","slug":"rajasthani-farmer-files-complaint-accusing-bjp-of-exploiting-his-image-improperly-on-election-posters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/11\/rajasthani-farmer-files-complaint-accusing-bjp-of-exploiting-his-image-improperly-on-election-posters\/","title":{"rendered":"Rajasthani farmer files complaint, accusing BJP of exploiting his image improperly on election posters."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The 70-year-old filed a complaint against the party after seeing its advertisements depicting him as an insolvent farmer whose land was up for auction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A 70-year-old man has accused the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of abusing his photo for its electoral campaign in poll-bound Rajasthan, and has filed a case against the party for presenting him as an indebted farmer whose land was auctioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Madhuram Jaipal, a resident of Ramdevra in the Jaisalmer district, filed a complaint against the BJP, stating that the party defamed him. &#8220;People are asking me and my family questions. That is why I went the police in search of justice,&#8221; Jaipal explained. He also stated that neither his farm nor he was indebted. He also stated that he comes from a farming family and owns approximately 200 bighas of land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The BJP claimed that lands of over 19000 farmers in the state had been auctioned off as part of its electoral campaign dubbed &#8220;Nahi Sahega Rajasthan (Rajasthan would not tolerate)&#8221; with Jaipal&#8217;s photo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Untitled_design__3_-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1059\" width=\"841\" height=\"473\" srcset=\"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Untitled_design__3_-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Untitled_design__3_-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Untitled_design__3_-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Untitled_design__3_.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 841px) 100vw, 841px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Khammaram Bishnoi, a local police officer, a case under Indian Penal Code section 500 (defamation) was filed at Ramdevra police station based on Jaipal&#8217;s allegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Jaipal claimed the BJP misappropriated his image in posters in Jodhpur and Jaipur.&#8221; &#8220;He claimed the BJP defamed him and demanded action,&#8221; Bishnoi added. He went on to say that they had filed a complaint and were taking action. According to Bishnoi, Jaipal was obliged to file the complaint after BJP leaders refused to remove the posters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jaipal met with Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday to request action. Gehlot, who assured him that all of the posters would be removed, posted a video on social media of his meeting with Jaipal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 70-year-old filed a complaint against the party after seeing its advertisements depicting him as an insolvent farmer whose land was up for auction. A 70-year-old man has accused the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of abusing his photo for its electoral campaign in poll-bound Rajasthan, and has filed a case against the party for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1057,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1060,"href":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1060"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/viralplanetnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}