BJP tweets photo of 'relief material' boxes with Patil's pic

After the opposition slammed the BJP over the chief minister's picture on bags of relief material, the ruling party on Saturday claimed that NCP leader Jayant Patil was guilty of self-promotion during the floods.

The NCP accused it of using a morphed image to defame Patil.

The state BJP tweeted a photograph showing Patil with boxes of relief material for flood victims which had stickers bearing his photograph.

However, the Nationalist Congress Party said the boxes of snacks seen in the photograph had been distributed during an earlier event to mark birth centenary of late Rajaram Bapu Patil, Jayant Patil's father.

The IT cell of the BJP used a morphed image to defame the state NCP chief to deflect criticism from the Devendra Fadnavis government for delays in rescue and relief work, it said.

The BJP had come in for flak when bags of wheat and rice meant for flood victims in Sangli were found to have stickers with pictures of Fadnavis and the party's Ichalkaranji MLA, ...