New Delhi: Criticising the government for
an advertisement of Indian Railways in which Delhi has been
depicted in a map as part of Pakistan, BJP on Saturday 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
Ahmed alongside 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.
PTI
