Madhu Kishwar apologises to Tejaswi Yadav for sharing fake 'Bihar photo' of folding road

On Sunday, Madhu Kishwar had shared the photo which shows a man folding the top layer of the poorly laid road.

July 5, 2016, NewsCrunch

Academic and staunch BJP supporter Madhu Kishwar apologised to Bihar Deputy CM Tejasvi Yadav for sharing a photo that allegedly showed a poor quality 'foldable' road in  Bihar.

Madhu Kishwar tweeted on Monday evening saying she was sincerely apologising for sharing the photo without verifying, which she had got form a trusted friend. She, however, made it clear that the apology held good only if the photo was found to be not genuine.

On Sunday, Madhu Kishwar had shared the photo which shows a man folding the top layer of the poorly laid road. She had captioned the photo - a scam in the name of road construction in Bihar.

The photo had earlier gone viral with many sharing it as proof of the poor quality of roads in Bihar, to discredit Nitish Kumar's claim that he had improved them significantly.

The photo suddenly became  credible after Madhu Kishwar retweeted it.

That stung Tejaswi Yadav, who as Bihar's  PWD minister, is responsible for the construction  and maintenance of roads in Bihar.

He and his sister Misa Bharti, a Rajya Sabha member from RJD, pointed out the photo had been earlier shared by a Bangladesh Twitter user Milon Moin Chowdhury and was not from Bihar.

They slammed Madhu Kishwar and said despite claiming to be a journalist, she had shared it without verifying.

Their stance drew wide support by Twitter users from Bihar, who saw Madhu Kishwar's tweet as an attempt to give the state a bad name, prompting her to say sorry.