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Its cartoon on Ahmedabad verdict taken down, Gujarat BJP says based on ‘real photographs’

A day after Twitter removed a caricature tweeted by the Gujarat BJP unit on a court verdict sentencing 38 people to death in the 2008 Ahmedabad serial blasts, the governing party on Monday claimed the cartoon was based on real photographs and did not target any particular religion or community.

However, the opposition Congress and some social activists hailed Twitter's decision to remove the cartoon, and claimed the BJP was trying to gain political mileage out of the court's judgment.

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