Prakash Raj lashes out at Congress, Rizwan Arshad for ‘backing out’ photo

Bengaluru: Coming down heavily on Congress party as well as on Bangalore Central candidate, Rizwan Arshad, noted actor Prakash Raj, who is contesting from Bangalore Central seat as an Independent candidate in the Lok Sabha elections, on Wednesday lashed out at the party and Mr Arshad for posting photographs on social media platforms, which claimed he has backed out in favour of Mr Arshad.

Immediately taking to Twitter, Mr Raj clarified that there was a candidate debate where he met Congress candidate (from Bengaluru Central) Rizwan Arshad. “Mr Arshad’s PA has made a photograph of it (him shaking hands with Mr Arshad), sent it on WhatsApp groups which says that I have joined Congress, so you don’t have to waste your vote on me. This was done by Mazhar Ahmed who claims to be Rizwan’s PA,” Mr Raj said in his video clip.

Mr Raj also claimed that he telephoned and slammed the lack of ethics of the person, who made the “sick” claim that the photos were a forward.

“How low can you stoop? Why don’t they talk on issues, present a report card (on their performance) or develop a scientific temper with a vision for the problems we have in this country. It’s sick and I am really angry about it. We need to teach these people ethics,” the actor observed in an audio clip in which the telephonic conversation is recorded.

The photograph of a handshake between Raj and Ahmed had gone viral on social media platforms, which was captioned — ‘Prakash Raj supports Congress. Don’t waste your vote by giving it to Prakash Raj’.