Nagpur: Minutes after former President Pranab Mukherjee delivered his speech at the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) event in Nagpur on Thursday, morphed images of him giving an RSS-style salute started doing the rounds of the social media.
In the craftily edited photograph, Mukherjee is seen wearing a black colour cap similar to that worn by RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and other RSS officials. The morphed photo also shows him raising his hand to his chest and giving a salute akin to the one given by RSS cadres.
In reality, Mukherjee neither wore a cap nor did he give any salute.
Responding to social media posts that have shared the photo, Mukherjee’s daughter and Congress leader Sharmistha Mukherjee reminded her father that she had cautioned him that the RSS will be resorting to things such as this.