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True: Congress posts wrong image to wish Indian Navy Day which BJP had shared as well in 2017.

By: Varun Kumar

May 12 2020

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True: Congress posts wrong image to wish Indian Navy Day which BJP had shared as well in 2017.

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The snapshot of Congress' Twitter post published by LiveFirst and the official website of US Navy validates the claim.

The snapshot of Congress' Twitter post published by LiveFirst and the official website of US Navy validates the claim.The BJP, on December 3, 2017, had tweeted an image of the US Navy’s Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship and wished the Indian Navy on Indian Navy Day. The Congress Party also posted the same image of the US Navy ship on December 3, 2019, and greeted the Indian Navy on the same occasion. The tweet was later deleted from their Twitter account. The image of Freedom Class Littoral Combat Ship uploaded on the official website of the US Navy confirms that the ship in the image shared by both BJP and Congress is of a US Navy ship. It was commissioned in the US Navy in January 2019.

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