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BJP's Sambit Patra falls for 'fake news' on social media yet again

Re-tweeted a story by Times of Islamabad on Make in India, the website credited NDTV instead of IE

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Karnika Kohli | The Wire
 BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra, who was asked to leave the NDTV 24×7 show ‘Left Right and Centre’ by anchor Nidhi Razdan after he accused the channel of “having an anti-BJP agenda”, seems to be holding a grudge against the news channel.

Patra on Sunday fell for ‘fake news’ when he re-tweeted a story by the Times of Islamabad website on Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘Make in India’ programme.



This is where things get a little tricky. The article was originally written by former finance minister P Chidambaram for the Indian Express