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Does Ajay Maken not know the difference between Bhagat Singh and Chandrashekhar Azad?

DailyBiteJuly 23, 2015 | 19:39 IST

In an embarrassing gaffe, senior Congress leader Ajay Maken on Thursday posted a photo of Shaheed Bhagat Singh while paying tribute to Chandra Shekhar Azad on his birth anniversary on Facebook. The picture, which was uploaded on Facebook on Thursday afternoon, was deleted soon after netizens started trolling the Delhi Congress chief for the faux pas. Maken later posted a picture of another freedom fighter - Bal Gangadhar Tilak, who was born on July 23, 1856. Chandra Shekhar Azad, who was born on July 23, 1906 in Madhya Pradesh, was a revolutionary freedom fighter who died fighting for country's Independence. During a gunbattle with British police on February 27, 1931 at Allahabad's famous Alfred Park, Azad shot himself with his last bullet. Read more here.

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