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Anand Mohan Sahay in Patna
After the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Nationalist Congress Party is all set to grab the opportunity provided by the controversial TV serial Ramkhilavan CM and family that caricatures the Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Laloo Prasad Yadav and his family.
The NCP announced it would offer a Lok Sabha ticket to Vineet Kumar, who plays Ramkhilavan in the TV serial.
The make up of actor Vineet Kumar, who plays Ramkhilavan, makes him look like the RJD chief Laloo Prasad Yadav, including the cropped salt-and-pepper hair and the glasses dangling around the neck. Sushmita Mukherjee plays Ramkhilavan's wife Imarti Devi, modelled on Bihar Chief Minister Rabri Devi.
The NCP general secretary Tariq Anwar, who also hails from Bihar, said the TV serial presents the true picture of the state.
The opposition BJP had already announced that it would arrange TV shows of the serial in Bihar's villages to 'expose the misrule' of Yadav's RJD, which governs the state.
The BJP announcement follows Yadav's threat of legal action against the serial that is aired on the SABe TV channel. The show, Yadav said, is a spoof on him and his wife, although the producers deny the charge.
BJP leader Sushil Kumar Modi said he had also urged Information and Broadcasting Minister Sushma Swaraj to air the serial on the state-run Doordarshan TV channel.
Last week Bihar has sent a team of policemen to Mumbai to arrest the makers of the TV serial. Yadav is reportedly consulting lawyers in a bid to file a defamation suit against the SABe TV channel.
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