BJP바카라s Karnataka IT cell passed off a viral picture of a pot-holed road from Sion in Mumbai as a road in Bengaluru to embarrass the Congress-run Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palika.
The IT cell tweeted and shared the picture on its Facebook wall claiming: 바카라NASA found people walking on moon, later BBMP confirmed it as Bengaluru road :)바카라 Karnataka BJP chief and former chief minister B.S. Yeddyurappa and Union minister of statistics and programme implementation Sadananda Gowda follow the IT cell on Twitter.
Ironically, Brihan Mumbai Corporation is run by the party바카라s ally in Maharashtra, the Shiv Sena.
The picture was originally taken by photojournalist S.L. Shantha Kumar of The Times of India. Here is the screenshot of TOI that splashed the picture across four columns of it Mumbai edition.
The IT Cell plagiarized another shot of the same road posted on Instagram by Kumar.
바카라This is a ridiculous thing to do. I had taken the picture and it is a copyright of The Times of India,바카라 Kumar told Outlook.
바카라The picture was emblematic of the mess that Mumbai roads were during the rains. 바카라They don바카라t know the pain I undertook in shooting the picture. The picture had gone 바카라viral바카라 and forced BMC to take the roads seriously.바카라
Kumar is an acclaimed photographer who has won numerous awards, including the Wisden-MCC Photographer of the Year award, Environmental Photographer of the Year (
Reacting on this, actor-turned politician, Ramya, who is heading Congress바카라s social media team at the national level, told Outlook that the BJP doesn바카라t care about whether they are putting out 바카라credible stuff바카라 or not.
바카라That바카라s how the BJP functions. They don바카라t care if they are putting out credible stuff. They just want attention,바카라 she said, adding, 바카라They (BJP) are the brand ambassadors of Photoshop.바카라
She also cited BJP leader Nupur Sharma바카라s post allegedly passing off a Gujarat riot picture as that of the violence in West Bengal. "(BJP IT Cell chief) Amit Malviya sought to defend this act by saying that images can be used for representational purposes. That's ridiculous!" she said.
"We (at the Congress) don't seek attention. Our focus is the truth. Truth has its ways," Ramya added.
Last Thursday, the Bombay High Court rapped the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) for its failure to repair potholes and maintain roads in the megapolis which has resulted in the death of over 20 people since monsoon.
"We read that because of potholes more than 25 persons have died this monsoon. How many more do you (MCGM) want to eliminate (kill) before next monsoon? The condition of the roads here are bad. We are not at all satisfied," said Chief Justice Manjula Chellur.
A division bench of Chief Justice Chellur and Justice N M Jamdar was hearing a suo moto (on its own) public interest litigation on the poor condition of roads in Mumbai and the MCGM's failure to prevent and repair potholes every monsoon.
On July 4 this year, an 18-year-old boy was killed when he lost control over his motorcycle while trying to avoid a pothole at Bhiwandi Naka in the neighbouring Thane district. He fell from the vehicle and later died of head injuries.
Earlier, a 21-year-old man was killed when his two-wheeler landed in a pothole near the state-run JJ Hospital in Mumbai in September last year.
Popular radio jockey Malishka Mendonsa also incurred the wrath of the Shiv Sena which controls Mumbai's civic body for a satirical song on pothole ridden-Mumbai roads during the monsoon.
With PTI Inputs
