BHOPAL: There is no end to the controversy over BJP leaders allegedly showing disrespect to party patriarch and former Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee . After videos of BJP leaders in Chhattisgarh and Madhya Pradesh laughing at Vajpayee's prayer meetings and Kalash Yatra went viral, now a shocker comes with a bill board paying tributes to the former PM installed atop a public toilet in the state capital.

Congress on Friday made this an issue and leader of opposition Ajay Singh said, "The BJP has never respected Atalji. They always used him for garnering votes. Even now they are doing the same. But, putting-up his poster on a public toilet is the limits. God forgive them for their insensitivity."

In Bhopal 's Nutan College Square, a huge bill board pays tribute with the words, "Jannayak ke charan mein shata shata naman (a hundred tributes at the feet of the People's Hero)." The banner also has a photo of Atal Bihari Vajpayee. Just below the banner is written in bold, "Samuhik Sauchalaya (Public toilet)".

"It is unfortunate that a leader of Atal Bihari Vajpayee's stature that he was leading a party that never respected or had belief in him. When he was alive and active, it was the BJP's compulsion because without him no other party wanted to be a coalition partner," Singh said.

"The NDA governments of the nineties was formed because Vajpayee was acceptable for the alliance parties. But where was Atalji in the 2013 assembly elections and 2014 Lok Sabha polls ? Was he even seen in any of the party banners and posters? Could the party not have ensured to pay his respect by following his policies and ideology while he was alive?" the LoP asked.

Ajay Singh said that the BJP patriarch has passed away and even now the BJP shows him no respect. "This is the reason why we are witnessing BJP leaders sniggering and laughing at their leader's prayer meetings and Kalash Yatra," he said.

