New Delhi: A Samajwadi Party leader committed an embarrassing faux pas, mistaking a Manipur girl for a foreigner.
Licypriya Kangujam, a child environment activist, tweeted a photograph of her standing amid plastic dump with the Taj Mahal in background.
Manish Jagan Agrawal, SP’s digital media coordinator, used the tweet to attack the Yogi Adityanath’s Uttar Pradesh government.
“Foreign tourists are also forced to show the mirror to the BJP government of the state. Yamuna is full of filth under the BJP government and is a blot on the beauty of Taj Mahal. Foreign tourist showing mirror to the government is very shameful,” he tweeted, using Licypriya’s photo.
An irked Licypriya, one of the youngest climate activists, clarified: “Hello Sir, I’m a proud Indian. I’m not a foreigner.”
Netizens pounced on Agrawal with contempt.
“LoL.. These are representatives of people from opposition in India,” reacted one person.
There were several abusive responses against Agrawal as well as SP, calling for immediate deletion of the tweet.
Licypriya, who is not even 11 years old, is known as India’s Greta Thunberg. She has been campaigning for action against climate change in India since 2018 and also delivered an address at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in 2019.
