Patna/ Buxar, June 20: Ashwini Kumar Choubey's description of the Congress chief Sonia Gandhi as mythical demon, "Putana", and her son Rahul Gandhi as "foreign parrot" at Nawada on Thursday has snowballed into a major controversy with a case being filled by a Congress worker against the BJP MP and Congress workers staging demonstration at a Buxar hotel where he was staying today.

Ram Narayan Jha, the Congress worker from Darbhanga, has lodged a case against Choubey at Darbhanga chief judicial magistrate court of G.K. Srivastva under Section 153(B), 500 and 504 of the IPC. According to Pawan Chaudhary, Jha's advocate, the court has transferred the case to first class judicial magistrate at Darbhanga. The court will hear the case on June 30.

At the meeting in Nawada, Choubey had also stated: " Bade bhai (Lalu Prasad) and chhote bhai (Nitish Kumar) Putna ki god me baith kar jehar peen eke liye chhatpata rahe hain (Both Lalu and Nitish are sitting in the lap of Putana and are desperate to consume poison and die).

According to the Mahabharat, Putana, the mythological demon, had been sent by king Kansa to kill the baby God Krishna.

Furious Congress workers today gheraoed a hotel in Buxar, where Choubey was staying, demanding an apology from the BJP leader. In Patna, the Congress leadership has condemned the statement by Choubey. State Congress president Ashok Chaudhary told The Telegraph: "The statement made by an elected representative against our party president is highly objectionable. We demand an unconditional apology from Choubey - either before the media or before public."

Chief minister Nitish Kumar too has condemned the statement of Choubey saying: "The BJP is so nervous in the run-up to the elections that its party leaders have started using foul languages against Sonia ji, Rahul, Laluji and me." Nitish, attending the JDU youth wing conference at SK Memorial Hall, said: "The statement made by Choubey is not a slip of tongue but he had made such statement with an intention."

However, the BJP leadership has distanced itself from Choubey's statement. Senior BJP leader and former deputy chief minister Sushil Kumar Modi refused to comment on the issue.

"We are weighing on Choubey's remarks," said a senior BJP leader, fearing: "Such statements can boomerang on the party in the polls."

The statement made by Choubey is not new, as the Buxar MP has made several controversial remarks angering the JDU, RJD leaders in the past few years. A few months ago, he termed Lalu-Nitish "Ranga-Billa" (two notorious criminals who used to assault schoolgirls in Delhi).

Also, during the tenure as health minister in the Nitish cabinet, he gave a call to chop the hands of doctors not doing their service properly.