This Article is From Jan 28, 2015

A Big No-No. Kiran Bedi Warns Kejriwal to Stop Using Her Photos

A Big No-No. Kiran Bedi Warns Kejriwal to Stop Using Her Photos

Kiran Bedi has sent a legal notice to Mr Kejriwal. (Photo: Agence France-Presse)

New Delhi: Kiran Bedi, the BJP's presumptive Chief Minister of Delhi, has sent a legal notice to her opponent, Arvind Kejriwal, for using her photo, without her permission, in posters for his campaign.

The posters, pasted on auto-rickshaws, show Mr Kejriwal, 46, and Ms Bedi, 65. He is captioned "imandar" (honest)'; she is titled "avsarvadi" (opportunist).

"Yes, she has sent a notice to Kejriwal. He has been asked to ensure that the posters are removed," Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) media convener Praveen Shankar Kapoor.

Ms Bedi, a former top cop and activist, has been accused by Mr Kejriwal and his party of ideological vacuity; they say that for years, she professed an aversion to politics, declining their offer to run as their chief ministerial candidate in the last Delhi election a year ago. They say that the fact that she joined the BJP earlier this month proves her interest in attempting to ride "the Modi wave" - the goodwill for the PM that has driven voters in states like Maharashtra and Haryana to support his party, the BJP.

In 2011, Ms Bedi and Mr Kejriwal were the twin pillars of the India Against Corruption campaign that was fronted by activist Anna Hazare. The movement forced parliament to adopt new anti-graft laws to prosecute and punish government officials for malversation. But Anna and Ms Bedi were severely critical of Mr Kejriwal's decision to found a political party in 2012.

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