Twitter Gaffe: Tharoor tweets Nehru-Indira’s USSR visit photo as one from USA 

Team Udayavani, Sep 24, 2019, 12:32 PM IST

In a recent tweet, Tharoor taking a dig at the massive crowd that came to attend PM’s Howdy Modi event during his recent visit to the US posted a picture of former Prime Minister of India Jawaharlal Nehru, and Indira Gandhi at a public rally. He captioned the photo, “Nehru & India 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.”

I am told this picture (forwarded to me) probably is from a visit to the USSR and not the US. Even if so, it still doesn’t alter the message: the fact is that former PMs also enjoyed popularity abroad. When @narendramodi is honoured, @PMOIndia is honoured; respect is for India. https://t.co/9KQMcR0zTD

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 23, 2019

Shashi Tharoor soon became the target of trolls when he committed a major blunder after he misspelt ‘Indira’ as ‘India in his tweet and by also giving incorrect information to his followers.

In reality, the photo of Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi that Tharoor shared was one clicked in 1955 when they visited the visited then Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), in  Magnitogorsk, and not one clicked in 1954 in USA.

Soon #IndiaGandhi, #USSR, #IndiraGandhi started trending with over 75,000 tweets on the platform.

Who’s India Gandhi ? #IndiaGandhi . https://t.co/WU19DtMnSx

— Yallappa Gulbarga (@YallappaGulbar1) September 24, 2019

Pic 1:-☺️
▪️The Pic is not from US, it’s from Moscow
▪️The Pic is not of 1954, it’s of 1956.
▪️She’s not India Gandhi, She’s Indira Gandhi

Pic 2:- ?
▪️According to Shashi Tharoor Sir Nehru & India Gandhi in the US in 1954.

Do Some basic fact check before Spreading ♥️ pic.twitter.com/cA5LXtOQTT

— Sujay Raj (@Sujay__Raj) September 23, 2019

After his mistake was pointed out by the tweeple, Tharoor took to his Twitter to respond to the blunder that he made.

I am told this picture (forwarded to me) probably is from a visit to the USSR and not the US. Even if so, it still doesn’t alter the message: the fact is that former PMs also enjoyed popularity abroad. When @narendramodi is honoured, @PMOIndia is honoured; respect is for India. https://t.co/9KQMcR0zTD

— Shashi Tharoor (@ShashiTharoor) September 23, 2019