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'Destroyer of Democracy': Posters against PM Modi surfaces in Hyderabad as ED grills K Kavitha

As the Enforcement Directorate summoned Bharat Rashtra Samithi MLC K Kavitha for questioning to the national capital on Saturday, posters emerged in Telangana's Hyderabad projecting PM Narendra Modi as 'Ravana' with the tagline 'Destroyer of Democracy, Grandfather of Hypocrisy.' Several Opposition parties, especially BRS, has called out the BJP for misusing the central probe agencies to target Opposition leaders without taking any action against its own corrupt ministers such as BJP's sitting MLA Madal Virupakshappa, whose son was caught red-handed accepting a bribe of Rs 40 crore. 

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