BJP Denies Reports of Using Col Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh as Campaign Faces
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New Delhi: The BJP has denied reports that the party plans to use Col Sofiya Qureshi and Wing Commander Vyomika Singh as its campaign faces.
“This is #FakeNews. The BJP has no plans to use either Col Sofia Qureshi or Wing Commander Vyomika Singh as campaign faces. The comments made by BJP Minority Morcha President Jamal Siddiqui have been misconstrued. He simply made a limited point about highlighting Col Qureshi as an example of an empowered Muslim woman within the community,” BJP IT department in-charge Amit Malviya wrote on X on Sunday (June 1).
Malviya’s rebuttal came after a media report claimed that Col Qureshi and Wing Commander Singh, both of whom led India's press briefings on Operation Sindoor, will be the faces of an ambitious women-centric campaign to be launched by the BJP on the completion of 11 years of the Modi government on June 9, reported Press Trust of India.
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