The official Twitter handle of BJP Delhi did a blunder of praising the South Delhi Municipal Corporation.
They posted a photo from Richmond City of Canada, and misrepresented it as a Delhi street in a tweet which says that the BJP Municipal corporation “replaced 2 lakh Sodium Street Lights with LED lights”.
The website of the Municipality of the District of Shelburne has the similar photo as well.
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Although some Twitter users have dutifully pointed out the botch up, municipality officials haven’t responded to the photo yet.
The BJP has had a long history with photoshopped images, and almost every time, it was caught red-handed.
In its election manifesto in Varanasi, several posters showed Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressing a large crowd. We can't tell exactly how large the crowd was since people's images were clearly copy-pasted.
![Although Twitter users have pointed out the botch up, municipality officials haven’t responded to the photo yet.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2017-04%2F37942fb9-3cd7-44c1-8de7-fc5cefcee6db%2Fbjp%20poster.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
During the Chennai floods of 2015, PIB enthusiastically put up a heavily photoshopped image of PM Modi looking at a flooded city from his plane.
Modi fans walked the extra mile to spread devotion of the ‘chaiwala’ PM with images that showed Modi doing a menial job.
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Some BJP leaders also seem to be unable to tell real photos from fake ones.
So what if it’s a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph shot by Joe Rosenthal that became a symbol of the American victory over the island of Iwo Jima in the Indian Ocean.
![Although Twitter users have pointed out the botch up, municipality officials haven’t responded to the photo yet.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2017-04%2F7877c80f-bf04-4aeb-9bfc-1afb582d4c03%2Findian%20flag%20photoshop.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
It was reduced to a joke on The Newshour Debate with Arnab Goswami when BJP’s National Spokesperson Sambit Patra patriotically held up a photoshopped version of the iconic photograph with the Indian tricolour, instead of the American ‘star-spangled banner’, and said ‘Look at our Indian soldiers”.
![Although Twitter users have pointed out the botch up, municipality officials haven’t responded to the photo yet.](https://images.thequint.com/thequint%2F2017-04%2Fbb4fa269-b672-416e-89bb-099f8ac871f2%2Fsambit%20patra.jpg?auto=format%2Ccompress&fmt=webp&width=720)
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