Daijiworld Media Network
New Delhi, Jul 13: The Congress mistakenly tagged actress Priyanka Chopra instead of its spokesperson Priyanka Chaturvedi while criticising Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi in a tweet. Later the tweet was deleted.
The tweet had accused the PM of lying about the soil testing labs, which gives soil health report to the farmers.
“PM Modi is lying about Soil Testing Labs too. During UPA regime there were 1141 Soil testing laboratories: @priyankachopra,” Congress tweet said.
Priyanka Chopra
Priyanka Chaturvedi
The tweet came after Modi accused Congress of neglecting farmers during its rule and only using them as a vote bank.
Soil testing labs are set up to provide farmers with soil health cards, which helps them decide the quality of their products they normally grow.
Priyanka Chaturvedi is a Congress spokesperson who appears widely on TV debates.