Kejriwal Attacks Modi for Note Ban; Tweets Wrong, Misleading Image

He retweeted an image of a man who supposedly hung himself after demonetisation, but it was factually incorrect.

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal. (Photo: PTI)

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has minced no words in the past to criticise Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Especially when it comes to the recent demonetisation policy, Kejriwal has made his extreme disapproval apparent.

Recently the Delhi CM retweeted a photo of a man in Satna, Madhya Pradesh, who had hung himself. The original tweet claimed that the man had killed himself as he had not been able to withdraw money for a few days.

(Photo: Twitter)

While retweeting the image, Kejriwal wrote in Hindi “Have mercy on the people of this country. What enmity do you have with the public?”

It later emerged however that the picture was in fact out of context and was from an older incident when a man who barged into a bank in Satna hung himself, after being surrounded by the police.

A youth, who allegedly barged into a nationalised bank in Satna district for robbery, hanged himself inside after realising that police surrounded him and any attempt to escape would prove futile. The incident took place at Allahabad Bank‘s Bela village branch at 3 am on Saturday.

a <i>Times of India</i> report on the incident

Kejriwal has since deleted the tweet, and Twitter user Abhishek Mishra whose tweet it originally was, has deleted his account.

The AAP leader is not new to Twitter goof ups. On Monday he retweeted a picture of Syrian children rescued from an airstrike, claiming that they were survivors of the Kanpur train derailment.

(Photo: Twitter/Optimist)