Rahul Gandhi mixes up Mizoram with Manipur, BJP calls him ignorant

October 30, 2018 09:06

Both the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Congress constantly use social media as a platform to attack each other. And if one makes a mistake, the other one makes sure to highlight it prominently. A similar incident happened on Monday (October 29) when Congress president Rahul Gandhi made a faux pas by getting the name of a state wrong.

Sharing a news about a Sainik School, that opened its gates to girl students fifty years after its inception, Rahul mistook Mizoram for Manipur. "Given the chance, there is nothing a girl cannot do. These girls at the Sainik School in Manipur are proof of this. My best wishes to these brave, inspiring children. You are the future of India. You make us all proud," Rahul wrote on Facebook.

The Sainik School in question is however in Mizoram, not in Manipur.

Rahul, however, rectified the post.

BJP IT head Amit Malviya was quick to use this opportunity to call out Rahul's oversight. "Rahul Gandhi shares an article on Mizoram and writes Manipur. It is this ignorance about the Northeast that is so problematic!" Malviya wrote on Twitter with a screenshot of Rahul's Facebook post.

"Rahul Gandhi go and write this a hundred times, 'Mizoram and Manipur are two different states in the Northeast of India and I will remember that for the rest of my term as president of the Congress party!" Malviya said in a tweet.

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