Lucknow, Feb. 3: Bahubali 2 may be a few months from hitting the theatres but the curtains have already gone up on a parody of the film in poll-bound Uttarakhand.

The two-minute caricature film uploaded on social media shows chief minister Harish Rawat in the title role of Mahendra Bahubali, carrying a hill-shaped Uttarakhand state on his shoulders, the way a sinewy Bahubali hoists a giant rock in the epic fiction movie.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is portrayed as a hermit, watching "Bahubali Rawat" from a distance. A few other BJP leaders look on in amazement, including party chief Amit Shah and Vijay Bahuguna, who had defected from the Congress last year.

Starting with " Kaun hai Wo (Who is he)", theme song in the Hindi version of the Telugu movie, the parody ends with an appeal to voters to support the Congress in the February 15 elections.

Not surprisingly, BJP leaders are crying foul and calling for a ban on the clip. Puneet Mittal, convener of the state BJP campaign committee, has submitted a written complaint to the chief electoral officer saying the parody film should be immediately blocked on social media sites.

"They (the Congress) have portrayed the Prime Minister in bad taste. Many religious sites in Uttarakhand have also been shown in the movie with Rawat as a saviour. We want the Election Commission to stop the circulation of this movie immediately and take action against those who have made it," said Mittal.

Congress leaders have not yet owned up to their role in the making of the parody but sources in the party said it was made by a team of professional strategists sent to the hill state to mount a social media campaign for the polls.

National BJP spokesperson Anil Baluni said: "Rawat is actually playing the role of Kattappa in Uttarakhand."

In the S.S. Rajamouli-directed Bahubali released in 2015, Kattappa is a royal slave who plots the murder of Amrendra Bahubali, the father of Bahubali.

"The entire state had seen a sting operation in which the chief minister was heard bargaining and indulging in horse-trading. The people will remove him in this election to save the state from scams," Baluni said, referring to accusations that Rawat had tried to offer money to legislators to win a trust vote last year. The CB> is probing the case.