{"id":70487,"date":"2020-07-04T15:15:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-04T09:45:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=70487"},"modified":"2020-07-04T16:09:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-04T10:39:11","slug":"pm-modis-visit-to-leh-army-hospital-wasnt-a-manufactured-photo-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/pm-modis-visit-to-leh-army-hospital-wasnt-a-manufactured-photo-op\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi’s visit to Leh Army Hospital wasn’t a manufactured photo-op"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived in Leh<\/a>, the capital of the union territory of Ladakh, in the morning of July 3 to interact with the army, air force and the Indo-Tibetan border police. After addressing troops in Nimu base, PM Modi visited a military hospital<\/a> treating soldiers injured in violent clashes with China in Galwan Valley. Photographs of the Prime Minister’s visit to the hospital ward has sparked a controversy on Twitter. Several members of the Congress party have claimed that a conference hall was converted into a ward for theatrics and photo-op. National media panellist of Congress, Abhishek Dutt, tweeted in Hindi<\/a>, “How does this look like a hospital – no drip, a photographer in place of a doctor, no medicines with the beds, no water.”<\/p>\n

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Congress members Srivatsa<\/a> and Salman Nizami<\/a> made similar tweets.<\/p>\n