Union Home Minister Amit Shah was left red-faced on the first of a two-day visit to Bengal, to kickstart BJP’s preparations for the Assembly elections next year.
During BJP’s tribal outreach programme in Bankura on Thursday, 5 November, Shah offered a floral tribute to a statue of an anonymous tribal hunter in Bankura, mistaking it as that of tribal icon Birsa Munda, a legendary leader who fought for India's independence and was killed at the young age of 25.
The tribal leaders then pointed to the BJP that the statue was not of Munda at all, but of another tribal hunter.