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TMC faces embarrassment for posting morphed photo of Rajnath, Karat

| | Apr 24, 2016, at 08:16 pm
#TMC # Derek O'Brien morphed photo # Rajnath Singh # Praksah Karat # Narendra Modi # Sidharth Nath Singh
Kolkata, Apr 24 (IBNS): In a huge embarrassment for the Trinamool Congress party, its lawmaker Derek O'Brien has had to apologise for putting out in the public domain a picture of Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh treating a sweet to communist leader Prakash Karat.
Derek presented the picture at a press conference in Kolkata on Saturday to establish that the left and the BJP were on good terms.
 
However, reports said that the picture was photoshopped, which Derek released in the public without checking.
 
As the picture was shown in the TV screens, BJP leader Siddharth Nath Singh slammed the TMC saying the picture was a fake.
 
Singh said the original photo has Rajnath Singh popping a sweet into Prime Minister Narendra Modi's mouth in 2013. 
 
In the morphed photo, Modi's face had been replaced by Karat's.
 
Later Karat also issued a statement to the media saying he had never got any opportunity of meeting Rajnath ever. 
 
"It is a patently false picture," Karat said.
 
Trinamool Congress also issued a statement saying: "Two videos and 6 pics were shown at our press conference. We removed one picture immediately when our research team learnt that it was photoshopped."
 
Derek told NDTV that it was a genuine error by the research team.

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