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Shashi Tharoor makes major blunder, tweets photo from Nehru-Indira's USSR visit as one from USA

24 Sep 2019, 12:43PM ISTSource: Times Now

Senior Congress leader Shashi Tharoor is well known for his knowledge and vocabulary, but this time he has made a blunder. Shashi Tharoor tweeted a photo showing former prime ministers of the country, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi, in a car amid huge crowds with a claim that the photo was taken when they visited the United States of America (USA) in 1954.Tweeting the photo, Tharoor said, "Nehru and India (sic) Gandhi in the US in 1954. Look at the hugely enthusiastic spontaneous turnout of the American public, without any special PR campaign, NRI crowd management or hyped-up media publicity." Tharoor's tweet is a dig at Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who attended an Indian-American community event named 'Howdy, Modi!' at the NRG Stadium in Texas' Houston on September 22, 2019. Among the 50,000 people present at the venue of the mega event was United States President Donald Trump. The truth is: The photo of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi that Tharoor, Kishore and Yuva Desh shared was one clicked in 1955 when they visited then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), in Magnitogorsk, and not one clicked in 1954 in USA.

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