Banerjee excludes Nehru! West Bengal Congress slams Mamata Didi for exclusion of Nehru among other freedom fighters in display picture

Kolkata, Aug 16: West Bengal Congress has slammed Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for excluding Jawahar Lal Nehru on her Twitter display picture, which features prominent freedom fighters with the exception of India's first Prime Minister.

 

 

 

 

WB Congress retweeted a tweet of a man whose daughter sketched 'Tryst with Destiny' the speech given by India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. "My daughter chose to remind some basic history lesson by drawing the moment of first independence day!", the Twitter user Abhisek Banerjee wrote.

 

Retweeting the above tweet, the WB Congress on Aug 14 tagged the Twitter handles of Mamata Banerjee and the All India Trinamool Congress and wrote: "History lesson for @MamataOfficial @AITCofficial from a kid. Because they purposefully omitted the first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru from their independence day DP to please their political masters."

 

 

 

 

 

"@AITCofficial & @MamataOfficial u can purposefully omit #JawaharlalNehru from your #IndpendenceDay 2 please your master @narendramodi but u cant omit him from the history ; so my daughter chose to remind some basic history lesson by drawing the moment of first independence day," tweeted a user and thus followed a trail of questions over the West Bengal CM's choice of display picture.

 

Meanwhile, the omission of the name of Jawaharlal Nehru from the list of freedom fighters published in a Karnataka state advertisement on Independence Day highlighting the contributions of various freedom fighters in the Indian Independence movement created a stir in the southern state. Congress leader Siddaramaiah questioned Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai for the exclusion.