NEW DELHI: Congress’ pictorial post on social media, seemingly portraying PM Modi without his head, caused a furore in BJP. The governing party said the image echoed the Islamist ”
sar tan se juda
” call recently made by a Pakistan diplomat in London, who had mocked Indian diaspora with a throat-slitting gesture.
Congress posted the image with “gayab jimmedari ke samay (missing instead of taking responsibility)” as the caption on its X handle by cropping Modi’s head out of what appeared to be an old picture of the PM, with his trademark clothes forming the outline. It did not mention the PM’s name.
Congress defended the post through the day, arguing that it did not show anyone’s name or face. However, with the image going viral on social media, the party deleted it in the evening.
Significantly, it was only on Monday that the party, alarmed at its netas making controversial remarks like the one debunking the account of kin of Pahalgam victims that terrorists had marked out non-Muslims before killing them, had said only party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and LoP in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi represented the party’s stand.
BJP spokesperson Gaurav Bhatia said the post once again exposed sincerity of Kharge’s and Rahul’s claim of supporting govt in responding to Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. “This is not an innocent post by Congress. It is a sinister design to weaken the integrity of Bharat,” he told at a presser.
“On one hand, PM Modi and Army have taken a vow to destroy the power which has looked at India with an evil e
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