Chikkamagaluru: Election over, farmers now use Narendra Modi, Amit Shah cutouts as scarecrows

CHIKKAMAGALURU: In the recently concluded state assembly election, BJP swept in all the five assembly constituency of the district. Thanks to the whirlwind campaign carried out by Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party's national president Amit Shah.

Both of them had addressed massive rallies in the district which was attended by a huge crowd. The party local leaders too carried out the aggressive booth level campaign by using the cutouts of the leaders including Prime Minister, party national president and party CM candidate BS Yeddyurappa. But two months later same cutouts are now used as scarecrows by many farmers in Lakkavalli "hobli" of the Tarikere taluk.

According to the villagers of this region, this year due to good monsoon rainfall, sowing is completed in most part of the "hobli" and few farmers are using the old cutouts of the national leaders as the scarecrow. "It is not restricted to any particular party. Party leaders had kept the cutouts to seek votes in the villages and semi urban areas. Now the farmers are using the same in their fields," said Rajesh Matapati, a resident of Tarikere and an agro-equipment supplier.

"Many were using the buntings, wooden sticks used for the cutouts for the various purposes," he added.

When contacted, T N Shivakiran, president, Lakkavalli grama panchayat, said that he hasn't seen any cutouts used as the scarecrow.