CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat on Sunday filed a complaint against Trinamul Congress MP Derek O’Brien for allegedly using a morphed picture of him being offered sweets by Union home minister Rajnath Sing
CPI(M) leader Prakash Karat on Sunday filed a complaint against Trinamul Congress MP Derek O’Brien for allegedly using a morphed picture of him being offered sweets by Union home minister Rajnath Singh.
The former CPI(M) general secretary has lodged the complaint at Mandir Marg police station in the national capital.
Targeting the Mamata Banerjee-led party over the photo episode, Mr Karat said the Trinamul Congress is getting “increasingly desperate” as the poll campaign in West Bengal goes on. It shows the level to which the TMC can “stoop to”, he said.
“He (Mr O’Brien) has used the morphed picture in his press conference and it has also been put on the website of the Trinamul Congress and this is being widely shown on the (news) channels also. So, it is politically defamatory and got the party (CPI-M) and myself into disrepute among people. So, action should be taken (sic),” Mr Karat said in his complaint.
He said displaying the “fabricated” photograph on the TMC’s website falls under cyber crime and that it was Mr O’Brien who should be held responsible for “using” the image.
Mr Karat said the CPI(M) will also take the issue to the people of the state to “expose” the ruling party “politically”.
The Trinamul Congress, following a press conference by its national spokesperson O’Brien, had on Saturday posted two videos and six pictures on its website. The party, however, removed the morphed picture from its website after the controversy.
Mr O’Brien had on Saturday told a news agency that the image was removed from the Trinamul Congress website on realising that it was morphed.
