A town unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Tamil Nadu state put up a hoarding to pay tribute to the CRPF jawans who died in the Pulwama terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir. However, instead of pictures of the jawans, the party unit put up pictures of slain LTTE martyrs.
Embarrassingly, even a cursory look at the hoarding shows that the people in the photos are dressed in LTTE uniforms and include women. The CRPF jawans killed in the Pulwama attack did not include any women.
BJP MP Subramanian Swamy wrote on Twitter about the goof-up and said. “BJP head quarter better get this right and dissolve that unit of town BJP”.
I saw a media circulated BJP’s poster of 42 jawans who were said to be martyrs of Pulwama. But media persons informed me theses were all photos of killed LTTE terrorists!! BJP HQ better get this right and dissolve that unit of town BJP
— Subramanian Swamy (@Swamy39) February 18, 2019
Per a report in The Quint, the same error was observed in different parts of the state — in Tiruvannamalai district’s Vandavasi, In Coimbatore district’s Udayampalayam etc. It is not yet clear that exactly which place in Tamil Nadu the BJP unit put up the wrong pictures.
A Twitter user replied to Swamy’s Tweet with a picture of a similar hoarding where policemen can be seen saluting the photos of the LTTE militants.
Thank you da suppu ???? pic.twitter.com/H7Pd5GOShm
— h raja (@fazalmohamed18) February 18, 2019
CRPF Twitter handle put up a picture containing photos of jawans killed in Pulwama.
Bravehearts of CRPF who made the supreme sacrifice and attained martyrdom in the Pulwama attack on 14/02/2019. pic.twitter.com/eHrPnYaSGV
— ????????CRPF???????? (@crpfindia) February 15, 2019
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