The VHP has printed 3.5 lakh posters highlighting Sonia's origin and her religion, for the first phase of campaigning for Lok Sabha polls. The Parishad has already despatched 50,000 posters to Amethi, from where she is likely to contest. An equal number of posters would be shortly sent to Bellary in Karnataka from where she filed nomination on Wednesday.

Another set of posters published by a RSS-sympathiser outfit called Bhartiya Yuva Kranti Dal, portrays Sonia as an ``intruder'' who after Kargil wanted to capture Lal Qila, the symbolic seat of power in India.

The posters printed on a dark blue background shows Sonia stepping inside India and warns people against designs of Jaichands (back-stabbers) who were abetting her.

``The BJP has its limitations in attacking India. Itcan criticise Sonia only politically, but we have no such hangups. We will even highlight her religion and how she has been promoting Christians in her party'', a VHP spokesman told The Indian Express.

The RSS affiliates plan to flood Delhi with such posters and campaign extensively against Sonia especially in South Delhi constituency contested by prominent Congress leader, Manmohan Singh. They have organised a Rashtra Raksha Yagya at Adilbagh near Palam here on August 22, as part of its plan to organise 5500 such yagyas all over the country.

There will be a discourse by prominent Hindu saints followed by a yagna and a public meeting to be addressed by the saints and other RSS functionaries, he said. They will also hold street corner meetings to drive home their message.

``The people tend to have more faith in religious leaders than the political ones and hence our appeals would have a much greater impact on masses'', claimed another RSS functionary.