The West Bengal state BJP has attracted major controversy after using a picture from Bangladesh, that too of 2013 in their manifesto for the upcoming Panchayat polls.

In a collage of pictures used in the manifesto, one of it is from violence in Bangladesh, way back in 2013. The five pictures broadly try to put forward party's claim that there is a state of lawlessness in Bengal, except one of it is not from the state, reports Zee 24 Ghanta.

West Bengal BJP President Dilip Ghosh alongside other leaders unveiled party's manifesto on Tuesday. BJP is looking to become the second biggest force in the upcoming Panchayat polls in Bengal.

However, it has alleged the ruling TMC of unleashing massive violence and has accused the police of being a mute spectator.

BJP has defended its action. According to the saffron unit, the image is related to the context in which the collage has been given. It's not a mistake but given consciously.

The party claims that in several parts of the state, statues of Hindu gods have been desecrated akin to what has happened in Bangladesh. Hence the image was used.

The picture in contention is from agency AFP. The picture was taken by news agency AFP on 11th March 2013.

The image description for the picture says, " Supporters of the opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) shout slogans near a bonfire during a protest in Dhaka on March 11, 2013. Demonstrators took to the streets as Bangladeshi police detained BNP Acting Secretary General Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir from the party headquarters.

The war crimes proceedings against a dozen leaders from Jamaat and the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) have opened old wounds and divided the nation, with the opposition accusing the government of staging a witch-hunt".

Surely, it is odd that an image of BNP workers clashing with police in 2013 is considered contextually similar to what is happening in West Bengal in 2018, as the BJP claims.