The Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party was left red faced after it used a video clip of doctor and classical dancer Srinidhi Chi...
The Tamil Nadu unit of the Bharatiya Janata Party was left red faced after it used a video clip of doctor and classical dancer Srinidhi Chidambaram, who is the wife of Congress MP Karti Chidambaram, in one of the campaign videos for the Assembly elections in the state. The tweet was deleted later, reported NDTV.
Srinidhi Chidambaram ridiculed the BJP for using her photograph for its tweet on Tuesday. “The lotus will never bloom in Tamil Nadu,” she said while responding to a screenshot of the video clip shared by a journalist on Twitter.
Ridiculous that the @bjp4india has used my image for their propaganda. தமிழகத்தில் தாமரை என்à®±ுà®®் மலராது. @BJP4India
— srinidhi chidambaram (@srinidhichid) March 30, 2021
The party had used a clip of Chidambaram dancing to SemMozhi, a song written by the late former Chief Minister M Karunanidhi and composed by musician AR Rahman. While the footage of the dancer was only a few seconds long, the BJP used Chidambaram’s face as the cover picture of the campaign video, according to several screenshots of the tweet on social media.
The video, titled “Let Lotus Bloom, Let Tamil Nadu Grow”, was shared on Tamil Nadu BJP’s official Twitter handle on March 28. The five-minute clip comprised a montage of images meant to showcase the greatness...
