Failing to learn from mistakes, the Bharatiya Janta Party leaders and online warriors have once again called embarrassment upon themselves. Funnily, in less than a day’s span, the party leaders and their supporters posted two misleading pictures online.
In the first case, BJP spokesperson and fashion designer Shaina NC and Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Patel, in association with party’s cyber soldiers, circulated an old and misleading picture of the victim who was allegedly stalked and harassed by Haryana BJP chief Subhash Barala’s son Vikas Barala in Chandigarh recently. Shaina, hours within casting aspersions on Varnika Kundu, deleted her tweet. She claimed that her account had been hacked by “mischievous folks”. Even though Prashant was also quick to delete the controversial tweet without an apology or explanation, many were quick to point this out.
And, you are a woman politician calling a 29 year old “victim beti” what do you even mean? Empathy much? pic.twitter.com/npvjB4iVJ3
— Swati Chaturvedi (@bainjal) August 7, 2017
Varnika Kundu was bashed on social media over a misleading picture by Shaina NC, Supreme Court lawyer Prashant Patel, an author of fake news site postcard.news, Rupa Murthy and party’s cyber soldiers. While posting the misleading picture, Prashant Patel had tweeted, “So called victim daughter of IAS from Chandigarh with Vikas Barala. This story is as true as like Jasleen Kaur of Delhi and of Rohtak Sisters.”
Similarly, Shaina had posted the picture on twitter, saying: “So called victim Beti with Vikas Barala.” While seeking “justice for the son of Subash Barala (Haryana BJP chief)”, she also commented that the “story is as true as like Jasleen Kaur of Delhi and of Rohtak Sisters.
In the second case, BJP’s Karnataka IT Cell tweeted out a picture showing a Mumbai road peppered with potholes, calling it a road in Bengaluru. The state goes to the polls next year. Hence, one can understand the level of desperation within BJP that they have to pass off a picture of a potholed road from Sion in Mumbai as a road in Bengaluru.The party tweeted and shared the picture on its Facebook wall claiming: “NASA found people walking on the moon, later BBMP confirmed it as Bengaluru road :)”
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NASA found people walking on moon, later BBMP confirmed it as Bengaluru road 🙂 pic.twitter.com/nXhEsTJY4s
— BJP Karnataka ITCell (@BJPKarITCell) August 6, 2017
However, social media users were quick to point out that the picture was in fact shot by The Times of India photojournalist SL Shantha Kumar and was splashed across four columns of paper’s Mumbai edition.
