Visuals from BJP President Amit Shah's roadshow in Kolkata

A controversy erupted hours before BJP President Amit Shah's rally here on Tuesday after banners and flexes of the saffron party leaders including that of Prime Minister Narendra Modi were removed from the roadside.

Shah is scheduled to hold a roadshow from central Kolkata's Shahid Minar to Swami Vivekananda's residence in north Kolkata's Maniktala on Tuesday afternoon. Just two hours before the roadshow, a large number of cut outs and flexes of Shah, Modi and north Kolkata's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Rahul Sinha, were removed from a long stretch of Lenin Sarani.