Congress President Rahul Gandhi is being trolled online for a badly Photoshopped image that was used in a newspaper to promote the Congress' NYAY scheme

Congress President Rahul Gandhi has once again landed himself in a soup, just ahead of the crucial Lok Sabha Elections. This time, due to a badly photoshopped image of an elderly lady embracing him.

Rahul Gandhi is being trolled on Twitter after mysterious fingers were pointed out the in the photo, raising questions on its authenticity.

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s Tajinder Bagga took to Twitter to troll Rahul Gandhi and said that the latter should hire a better PR agency.

The picture was used in a newspaper to promote the Congress’ NYAY scheme promising a sum of Rs 72,000 annually to 20% of poor families.

It was just a case of bad Photoshop and the Congress president was indeed with the elderly lady. This image is from December 8, 2015 when Rahul Gandhi had visited the flood-affected areas of Tamil Nadu and Puducherry,

Ahead of the polls, all political parties, especially the BJP and the Congress are leaving no stone unturned to attack one another and gain prominence on the online space.

Both the ruling and the opposition parties are extremely active on social networking platforms and mock each other at any given opportunity.

Political parties have often been caught resorting to Photoshop to defame their rivals.

In this case, due to three cropped fingers!

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