Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed 50,000 people of the Indian-American community at the Howdy Modi event at NRG Stadium in Houston, and the whole world could just not stop talking about it. The event was a huge success with an impressive turnout, but Congress Leader Shashi Tharoor tried to downgrade the success of the event with a Jawaharlal Nehru picture to prove that Nehru has had equal or similar reception at the U.S before.
Mr. Tharoor shared a picture of Nehru and Indira Gandhi in a car, amidst a huge crowd. But the picture he shared happened to be from the leader’s visit to USSR and not to the U.S.
Nehru & India Gandhi in the US in 1954. Look at the hugely enthusiastic spontaneous turnout of the American public, without any special PR campaign, NRI crowd management or hyped-up media publicity”he wrote on Twitter.
The eloquent Congress leader managed to change the post on Facebook, but since he could not change it on Twitter, he made a corrected Tweet.
I am told this picture (forwarded to me) probably is from a visit to the USSR and not the US. Even if so, it still doesn’t alter the message: the fact is that former PMs also enjoyed popularity abroad. When
@narendramodi
is honoured,
@PMOIndia
is honoured; respect is for India.
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