resident Ram Nath Kovind unveiled the portrait on Saturday to mark Netaji’s birth anniversary.HighlightsAdd sufficient fibre-wealthy vegetables to your saladBalsamic vinegar is a wholesome dressing you can add to saladsYou can also add herbs to your saladKolkata: A portrait of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose unveiled by the President at Rashtrapati Bhavan is that of an actor who played him in a biopic, posts on social media claimed today.President Ram Nath Kovind unveiled Netaji’s portrait on Saturday to mark his birth anniversary, named “Parakram Diwas” by the Centre. A post on his timeline has gone viral with customers saying the portrait is not that of Netaji at all, that it is truly of Prosenjit Chatterjee, who played Netaji in the 2019 biopic “Gumnami”.BJP sources have rubbished the charge, asserting that the photo was supplied by Netaji’s household to popular Padma Shri award winning artist Paresh Maity, who painted the portrait. “The photo does not resemble Prosenjit at all. It is an unnecessary controversy,” the sources stated.It is not clear however which member or which branch of the household supplied the photo.Paresh Maity, 56, is from Bengal’s East Midnapore district and at present lives in Delhi.Among these who ridiculed the portrait was Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra, who tweeted: “After donating Rs. 5 lakhs to the Ram temple the President honours Netaji by unveiling a portrait of Prasenjit, the actor who played him in biopic God Save India (because this government certainly can’t).” She has now deleted the tweet.Several posts on Twitter have produced a equivalent claim.President Kovind unveils the portrait of Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose at Rashtrapati Bhavan to commemorate his 125th birth anniversary celebrations. pic.twitter.com/Y3BnylwA8X— President of India (@rashtrapatibhvn) January 23, 2021This is unbelievably hilarious. The Portrait that President of India Unveiled, it is is of Actor Prosenjit who played function of Netaji (Look at Eyes). That’s like unveiling Portrait of Ajay Devgan as Bhagat Singh https://t.co/voRxerFmoU— Joy (@Joydas) January 25, 2021Such is the state of affairs in this nation. President of India unveils the official portrait of, yes think me, of actor Prasenjit Chatterjee (Bumbada) and not Netaji at the Rashtrapati bhavan. Bumbada acted as Netaji in Srijit Mukherjee directed film Gumnaami.Hail the casting https://t.co/wJdo9snr3n— Dr Adil Hossain (@adilhossain) January 25, 2021Political fault lines. pic.twitter.com/oVWmMzeCKb— Neelanjan Sircar (@NeelanjanSircar) January 25, 2021In his function as Netaji, Bengali film star Prosenjit Chatterjee bears a striking resemblance to the renowned freedom icon in the 2019 film and he reportedly utilised prosthetics for his transformation. The claim that his portrait is up as Netaji’s at Rashtrapati Bhavan has inspired quite a few memes and jokes on Twitter, with people today calling for the inauguration of a portrait of Ben Kingsley as Mahatma Gandhi and Vivek Oberoi as Narendra Modi.This is the newest twist to the tussle more than Bengal’s icons in the bitter lead-up to elections in the state in April-May.Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, on Netaji’s birth anniversary on Saturday, had refused to total her speech just after “Jai Sri Ram” slogans had been raised by BJP supporters at a mega occasion at the iconic Victoria Memorial in the presence of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Even today, she accused the BJP, her major challenger, of attempting to suitable Bengal’s legends and exploiting them to reel in voters.Ms Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress has attacked the BJP more than blunders like mistakenly naming Shantiniketan as Rabindranath Tagore’s birthplace rather of Jorasanko in Kolkata and Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s floral tributes to a statue that was not tribal leader Birsa Munda’s.
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