PICS: 'Shiv-Bhakt' Rahul Gandhi’s Massive Road-Show In Poll Bound Madhya Pradesh

Indore: In poll-bound Madhya Pradesh, Congress chief Rahul Gandhi signed off with a road-show in Indore amid chants of "Har Har Mahadev" on Monday.

Meanwhile, Union Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said at Raipur in Chhattisgarh that Gandhi was trying to build his image as a "Shiv bhakt" with his temple visits. Madhya Pradesh, where the Congress is in the opposition since 2003, will go to the polls on November 28 and the results will be announced on December 11.

His vehicle passed through dense commercial areas like the Tory Corner, Lohar Patti and Jawahar Marg, before reaching its destination.He was greeted with the chants of "Har Har Mahadev" (hail Lord Shiva) by the party workers at many places.

Indore is considered a bastion of the ruling BJP. In the 2013 state Assembly polls, the saffron party had won all the five seats here. Earlier in the day, Gandhi performed "puja" at the ancient Mahakaleshwar temple of Lord Shiva in Ujjain, located 62 kms from here.

Addressing a corner meeting from his vehicle at Rajwada, Gandhi attacked the BJP-led central government over the implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST), which he often dubs as the "Gabbar Singh Tax"..

The Congress chief was accompanied by the party's state unit chief, Kamal Nath, and Jyotiraditya Scindia, who heads its state campaign committee.

While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) retorted, saying Gandhi was trying to build his image as that of a "Shiv bhakt" with his temple visits, the Congress chief hit out at the Narendra Modi government at the Centre and the Shivraj Singh Chouhan regime in Madhya Pradesh, alleging failures on several fronts, including jobs and corruption.

The Congress had last year said Gandhi was an ardent "Shiv bhakt". In August, he had undertaken the Kailash Mansarovar Yatra to seek the blessings of Lord Shiva. Clad in white kurta-pyjama, Gandhi waved at the people from an open-top vehicle and shook hands with some of them during the three-km journey from the Bada Ganpati intersection in the state's commercial capital to the historic Rajwada.