Even as former President Pranab Mukherjee was delivering his speech, or may be minutes later, at the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh event in Nagpur on Thursday, morphed images of him giving an RSS-style salute started doing the rounds of social media.


The photoshopped image shows him wearing a black cap like the ones favoured by the RSS and his hand raised to his chest in a RSS salute. While Mukherjee wore a Bengali dhoti-panjabi (kurta) and jacket, he did not wear a cap nor did he salute.


Responding to photograph, Mukherjee's daughter Sharmishtha reminded her father that she had cautioned him that the RSS would resort to this.


In a Twitter post Sharmishta wrote: "See, this is exactly what I was fearing and warned my father about. Not even few hours have passed, but BJP/RSS dirty tricks department is at work in full swing!"


On Thursday, Sharmishtha had cautioned her father that his speech and visuals from the event are likely to misused by the "dirty tricks department of the BJP/RSS". She had said that by accepting the invite to address RSS cadres, Pranab Mukherjee was giving the BJP and the Sangh a handle to plant false stories.
She had added that his speech will be forgotten soon but the visuals from the event will be remain and be misused.

Yesterday, she wrote, "Hope @CitiznMukherjee now realises from todays incident, how BJP dirty tricks dept operates. Even RSS wouldn't believe that you are going to endorse its views in your speech. But the speech will be forgotten, visuals will remain and those will be circulated with fake statements," she had said.