BHOPAL: A new spoof video of Madhya Pradesh chief minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan as super hero ' Bahubali ' and Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia as 'Bhallaldev' has hit the social media networking sites, rising the political temperature ahead of assembly elections in the state.

The video depicts chief minister Chouhan with extraordinary power, doing stunts and taking on the opponents like the epic action film Babubali fame Prabhas. The super-hero CM, bare-chested wearing specs lifts the massive Shivalinga as his opponents Rahul Gandhi and Kamal Nath watch open-mouthed in astonishment.

The video begins with Shivraj Singh Chouhan playing the lead in the film "Bahubali of Madhya Pradesh", and theme song in the background ambience, "Kaun Hi Kaun Hai Vo Kaun Hai Vo", who takes on the villains to save the public and princess Devsena.

The well-edited spoof video depicts Scindia as 'Bhllaldev' the commander-in-chief and union minister Narendra Singh Tomar as Kattappa. A scene shows Congress leader Kamal Nath declaring that he feels like ‘strangling him (Shivraj) with his own hands’.

A narration by chief minister Chouhan also shows taking pledge of the 'Constitution of India' to save the honour and wealth of the public. "Shivraj Singh Chouhan yani main MP ki asankhya praja aur unke dhan maan samman ki raksha karunga, aur iske liye apne pranon ki aahuti bhi deni padi to pichhe nahin hatunga", follows the narration.

The 2.16-minute video portrays Congress leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Digvijaya Singh, Kamal Nath, Ajay Singh and Scindia as villains while, Chouhan's most-liked Narendra Singh Tomar has been presented as Kattappa, the loyal general. A clip also shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi praising the chief minister’s actions.

The video highlights 'Youth of MP' as the presenter, begins with the caption 'Congress Kaal' (The Congress Era), displaying scenes of Mahismathi, the fictional kingdom where the plot of Bahubali unfolds, featuring slaves being whipped with a background narration "Jab jab prithvi par atyachar badha hai, tab tab logon ko insaaf dilane janm liya hai kisi yoddha ne" (whenever atrocities grow on Earth, a warrior is born).

Sources in BJP said that the video is trying to hype the overwhelming response to chief minister Chouhan's `Jan Ashirvad Yatra' which according to BJP leaders has turned the table in favour of BJP. However, the BJP state IT in-charge Shivraj Dabi refused to accept the video as official. Recently, BJP supporters had released a couple of spoofed videos showing CM as son of farmer, as Angad and a super-hero, showing Congress leaders as three-idiots. Congress had retaliated depicting Shivraj as `Ghoshnaveer’.

"This is not an official video by the BJP. There are individual IT experts in BJP and Congress who had been making spoof videos in the favour of their leaders. This could be one of them", Dabi tol TOI.

Sources in BJP also disclosed that the video has made a deep impact among the public immediately after its release the party workers were enthused over the massive response to the chief minister's rallies and road shows ahead of elections in parts of Madhya Pradesh.

