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'Volunteers made a mistake': Shashi Tharoor says sorry after wrong India map in manifesto

'No one does such things on purpose'

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Congress presidential candidate Shashi Tharoor apologised after facing criticism for showing a map of India that did not appear to be accurate, in the manifesto for the polls that he released on Friday.

The map did not show some parts of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh, attracting fierce criticism from the BJP which accused him of "dismembering India."

"Unconditionally" apologizing for the error, the Congress leader, in a tweet, said, "No one does such things on purpose."

"Re the troll storm on a manifesto map: No one does such things on purpose. A small team of volunteers made a mistake. We rectified it immediately &I apologise unconditionally for the error. Here’s the manifesto," he said in the tweet.

The saffron party had alleged that Tharoor put up a "mutilated map" of India to find favour with Gandhis. "While Rahul Gandhi is supposedly on a Bharat Jodo Yatra, wannabe Congress President is hell bent on dismembering India. May be he thinks this might help find favour with the Gandhis," BJP's IT cell head Amit Malviya had said in a tweet.

"It is not a mistake or blunder but laid policy of Congress about Jammu and Kashmir," BJP's national spokesperson R.P. Singh had said.

Tharoor had attracted similar criticism in 2019 when he shared a picture of a protest against the CAA act that showed a map of India without PoK. 

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