The original frame and the morphed photograph which was later deleted.

.@PIB_India Has now deleted the tweet with the photoshopped pic... pic.twitter.com/S7OV9a4Udo - Susegad Goan (@SusegadGoan) December 3, 2015\

The Press Information Bureau -- the government's nodal agency for communicating with media -- was left red faced today after a morphed photograph of Prime Minister Narendra Modi it tweeted had the social media in splits. Within an hour, the tweet was deleted.The photograph, the original of which it tweeted an hour before, showed PM Modi looking out of the aircraft window during his aerial survey of Chennai today. Waterlogged areas with stretches of green could be seen out of the window.In the morphed photograph, buildings could be seen outside.The reactions on Twitter ranged from bemused to amused.

PIB has since taken down that tweet .. @Sharanyashettyy but it was in terrible taste @PIB_India@PMOIndia@Ra_THORe - Lutyens' Leopard (@Leopard212) December 3, 2015



Others - including former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah -- questioned why.

Finally, the picture tweet is taken down. But it'll live on forever! @PIB_India Big Question: Why was it done? pic.twitter.com/Qwz2RhHcMJ - Omar Aiyaz (@omaraiyaz) December 3, 2015

Amazing. It's not as if the PM didn't go visit Chennai so why the heck resort to Photoshopping images!!! https://t.co/MEt6ol8O59 - Omar Abdullah (@abdullah_omar) December 3, 2015

I'm getting doubt whether namo did aerial survey after pib tweet. - vamshi (@vamshitweet) December 3, 2015



During his visit today, PM Modi had announced relief of Rs.1000 crore for Tamil Nadu, which, he said, will be released "immediately by the Centre". The government of India, he had said, will stand by the people of Tamil Nadu in their hour of need.