Bengal Cong. Slammed CM Banerjee Over Excluding India's 1st PM From Her Twitter DP

CM excludes Jawaharlal Nehru on her Twitter DP...

West Bengal Congress has attacked Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee for excluding Jawaharlal Nehru on her Twitter display picture, which features notable freedom fighters except for India's first Prime Minister.

Ahead of CM's tweet, the Bengal Cong. 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.

While responding to the tweet, the Congress on August 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 ur #IndpendenceDay 2 please ur 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 Chief Minister's choice of display picture.

In the meanwhile, the omission of the name of Jawaharlal Nehru from the list of freedom fighters published in a Karnataka state advertisement on Independence Day showcases the contributions of various freedom fighters in the Indian Independence movement and created a stir in the southern state.

Congress leader Siddaramaiah questioned Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai for the exclusion.

In a series of tweets, leader Siddaramaiah voiced strong objection to the omission of Jawaharlal Nehru's image in the advertisement. He also demanded an apology from the Karnataka Chief Minister.

"Insulting freedom fighter Jawaharlal Nehru in an advertisement made from common people's taxes is intolerable. The Chief Minister should apologize to the people of the state for insulting Nehru," said Siddaramaiah.

The advertisement with portraits of prominent freedom fighters was given to the media by the state government as part of the 'Har Ghar Tiranga' campaign.