[Reader-list] Why does BJP appropriate images all the time?

[gowhar fazli]

Is this a deliberate policy to remain in the news by making a fool of themselves 
or an unending series of blunders?


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Valley blooper in new BJP ad

After Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, it is the turn of the Delhi BJP to 
embarrass the party’s top brass with another advertising folly.

This time, the party used a photograph of NGO Anhad activists protesting the use 
of security forces in Kashmir to accuse the UPA government of failing to tackle 
terrorism in the valley on eve of party’s Kashmir Bachao Divas.

The NGO had been most vocal critic of BJP since the Gujarat riots and even filed 
a petition in Supreme Court against the state government in alleged fake 
encounter of Samir Pathan.

“Use of photograph without our permission... goes beyond your Kashmir Bachao 
Divas as Anhad and BJP are two diame-trically opposite organizations,”  said 
Anhad’s managing trustee Shabnam Hashmi, in a letter to BJP president Nitin 
Gadkari.

The photograph is of Anhad activists in a Kashmir-related protest in New Delhi. 
The picture was used in full-page advertisements in two national newspapers with 
a caption “in protest against UPA government’s failure to tackle terrorist and 
separatist forces in Kashmir”.

Hashmi warned of legal action if the BJP did not apologise.

Delhi BJP president Vijender Gupta said “It was an unintentional error. The 
advertising company may had put a backgrounder and by mistake may have used 
Anhad photograph”.

In June, the Gujarat government had used a photograph of Muslim girls in UP’s 
Shibli Inter College to showcase how Muslim girls were doing well in the 
Narendra Modi-ruled state.
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