Criticising the government for an advertisement of Indian Railways in which Delhi has been depicted in a map as part of Pakistan, BJP today said this was an affront to the country's sovereign pride and demanded an apology from the prime minister.
"The eastern railway advertisement shows a map of India which is blatantly wrong. Kolkata has been shown in Bay of Bengal, Khajuraho is where Hyderabad should be....to top it all Delhi is shown in Pakistan. There cannot be a worse gross omission or commission by the government," BJP spokesperson Nirmala Sitharaman said.
She accused the government of being careless and said this advertisement was an "affront to India's sovereign pride".
"Nothing short of an apology from the prime minister will do on this matter. This is not a one-off case," Sitharaman said.
In similar faux pas, an advertisement in newspapers on January 26 showed former Pakistan air chief Tanvir Mahmood Ahmedalongside prime minister Manmohan Singh.
Sitharaman said today's mistake showed the state of governance in the country where "administration was just happening" and there was no hold on it.
"BJP takes severe objection to this. The prime minister has to correct the ways the government is functioning," she said.
BJP also demanded an inquiry into who all were behind the advertisement.
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